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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                   2022 March 26   
      
                                  Pluto at Night   
          Image Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research   
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      Explanation: The night side of Pluto spans this shadowy scene. In the   
      stunning spacebased perspective the Sun is 4.9 billion kilometers   
      (almost 4.5 light-hours) behind the dim and distant world. It was   
      captured by far flung New Horizons in July of 2015 when the spacecraft   
      was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about 19 minutes   
      after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic   
      silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto's tenuous, surprisingly   
      complex layers of hazy atmosphere. Near the top of the frame the   
      crescent twilight landscape includes southern areas of nitrogen ice   
      plains now formally known as Sputnik Planitia and rugged mountains of   
      water-ice in the Norgay Montes.   
      
                         Tomorrow's picture: titanic flash   
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