Thursday, September 24, 2015

A Far Sunset

If you were standing on Pluto, that would mean a couple of things.

1) You live in an alternative and way cooler universe where bureaucracy and political leaders who deserve only half of that description did not short-circuit space exploration almost as soon as it started.

2) The sun would look like a small point of light, the way stars look to us here on Earth. But it would be a very very bright point of light that you probably couldn't look at for very long.

Still, you would have a sunset, and thanks to a picture or two from New Horizons, we know it would look something like this:


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