Over four billion kilometers away from us lies a distant, frigid world. On its barren surface, nitrogen falls as snow. Vast plains of frozen methane lie in the shadow of ice water mountains. From the surface of this hostile place, the sun appears nothing more than a star, a single pinprick of light among millions. The name mankind gave this silent world? Pluto.

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Source/Further reading:

(Overview): https://www.britannica.com/place/Plut...
Key dates in Pluto history: https://www.britannica.com/list/10-im...
Percival Lowell: https://www.britannica.com/biography/...
Lowell’s searches for Pluto: http://www.astronomy.com/year-of-plut...
Clyde Tombaugh: https://time.com/3956963/pluto-planet/
Pluto discovery: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...
Alan Stern and New Horizons: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/...
Demotion to dwarf planet: https://www.britannica.com/story/why-...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...
History of photos of Pluto: https://qz.com/927404/the-dramatic-wa...
Charon: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/pl...
Early days of the New Horizons mission: http://discovermagazine.com/1993/may/...
Neptune as the 13th planet: https://books.google.cz/books?id=ELd-...