The Sun is just a bright star, and the picture is not "real", rather a highly manipulated and enhanced multi-image. In the image PIA19952 (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19952), the red luminance channel corresponds to the infrared data acquired by the Ralph/MVIC instrument as it flew past Pluto. The green and blue luminance channels have been removed. The color data data from the original image was layered over the remaining luminance channel and further enhanced to bring out greater variation across the surface of Pluto. Because the luminance data was captured through an infrared filter, the areas appearing closest to white correspond with areas most reflective to infrared wavelengths. Full 4k resolution image available here: http://i.imgur.com/B2WUkZk.jpg I'm just messin' with you, it's still cool.
Where do you live that people are just fighting and killing and shooting each other up? People are quite pleasant and loving here in Beautiful Central Oregon.
Somebody claimed it had Celestial Privilege so the ACLU sued to have it de-planetized. It can never have asteroids now.
Why has nobody mentioned that Pluto is egg-shaped rather than spherical? Photos don't lie. I don't remember it ever being taught in school. Our planetary models were all spherical.
It orbits the earth every 28 days. Always facing earth, so to do this it has to make one revolution every 28 days. If that's wrong then someone should correct me. The revoltions is not relative to the earth but to the sun as it obits the earth. I think you can think of it a a tethered ball, tether to the earth and one spot on the ball. So as it spins about the earth, it shows all 360 to the sun during a complete orbit.
Haven't read the thread, but, there's no blue on Pluto. Fake picture. Amateurs do the same with Juno pictures from Jupiter. No blue there either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size Scroll down to the list. Pluto has the 17th-biggest diameter in the Solar System. (Earth's Moon is #14.) To avoid confusion, they have to draw the line somewhere.
Dinosaurs lungs are too small to survive in todays atmosphere. They would need a hyperbolic chamber. Something happened to lower the pressure on earth. Like a canopy of ice raining down causing a global flood.
Since lungs don't fossilize, I have no idea where rasheedfan got his "information" about dinosaur lungs. There is no evidence "something" happened to atmospheric pressure.
This is one of my personal favorites, going back to maybe the first book report I ever did. Every person who ever lived, is living, or is the egg or sperm of someone about to be living is contained in this picture. Every single one. Except Michael Collins, who took it.
