The Final Images We Will Ever See of Pluto and Arrokoth

Astrum explores everything NASA's New Horizons saw and discovered in the Kuiper Belt around Pluto, Charon and Arrokoth (Ultima Thule). Space merch now available!

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Image Credits: NASA/ESO/ESA
/James Malcolm/Erik Wernquist

Music Credit: Adrian Chifu - Eternal Traveler
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0:00 Intro
1:00 Pluto
18:19 Arrokoth
28:38 Outro

[brianlowe]

Born too late to explore the world. Born to early to explore universe. Born just in time to appreciate pictures of cool, faraway rocks.

[WaveOfDestiny]

It's so wholesome to think that we engineered such precise and advanced crafts just to do basically the same things we did as kids, looking at strange rocks. This is the most human thing ever.

[bren.nan_]

I remember learning that Pluto was a blue little speck. It's so amazing to finally see it with my own eyes. Astronomy invokes some sort of emotion that you can't really find anywhere else. And I love it.

[sharonneethling]

I am 63 year's old. This is the most fascinating video, I have ever seen. When I was young. I had always wondered what Pluto looks liked. Beautiful and wondrous ❤. It's a privilege to see Pluto in my generation because the generation before me, always wondered what Pluto looked like. The Moon, Mars and Saturn is nothing in comparison to Pluto ❤.

[bakubread]

Makes you realize that we're still in the stone age of space travel, literally just hurling cameras into space with extreme precision because sending a ship that could actually maneuver and turn around is still completely unfeasible

[gracerodriguez]

When i was a kid, in science books in school, pluto was always depicted as being a blue icy looking planet. crazy how vastly different it actually looks.

[Longlius]

For reference, New Horizons in total cost about $780.6 million. For comparison, the Burj Khalifa (tallest skyscraper in the world) cost about $1.5 billion. So for the cost of one skyscraper, you could fund New Horizons nearly twice over.

I never want to hear people complain about how inefficient NASA is again.

[RottingaAAAA]

something deep inside of me was awakened when I realized the planet we forgot about had displayed a heart, and the fact it and its moon are forever facing each other, I wish Charon was named Persephone instead, that way they could be the two lovers, interlocked in their spiralling dance for all eternity. It really is the most underrated planet

[LITTLE]

Pluto is something I've always wanted to see as a kid. All the times I was school (when it was called a planet), it was always shown as a blurred colorful circle. But, now, seeing what it ACTUALLY is, it's crazy how vastly different from the older images.

[justinboros]

As someone who was born in the early 80's and who's been a space enthusiast my entire life, there's two events that I'll never forget, and were (and still are) the stuff of amazement, daydreams and wonderment: Cassini-Huygen's arrival to the surface of Titan, and New Horizon's arrival to Pluto. Arrokoth was the icing on the cake.

[shannont]

I’ve also loved Pluto and never thought I’d get to see what it looked like. I always felt bad for Pluto too, like it was the underdog and forgotten. When I saw the heart, it made me emotional. It was as if Pluto was saying, “Hi there. Thanks for not giving up on me.” 🖤

[petrolheaduk]

The thing that boggles my mind is that there is just so much to explore in our small solar system just by itself. Imagine the variety of stuff there is out there in our galaxy, let alone the entire known universe. Thanks Alex, great channel as always.

[ksen]

Does anyone remember Pluto being depicted as a dusty blue planet(mostly in books/kids shows)? Seeing that it's a white/ivory and rusty red is incredible! And that heart on the side! It looks so cool in the rotation phtos😍👌

[RubyBloodRoseGaming]

Pluto and Charon have such a romantic existence, its incredible. And for New Horizons to come across Arrokoth which seems almost like a potential promise and dream for the dwarf and moon in the same journey is just so so wonderful!

[SoylentGamer]

These extremely distant objects are fascinating from a physics perspective, they teach us new things that you'd normally never think too hard about. Normally we think of distant extraterrestrial objects as fast orbiting, dense rocks that bring death and destruction, but some of them are just funny red snowmen that like to chill far far away.

[KilledByThatTrain]

I know it’s commonplace, but it still amazes me how we knew 1) the exact day (and hour) to launch this probe, 2) the exact speed and direction it needed to go to get a gravity assist from Jupiter (that saved 3 yrs!), and most importantly, 3) the exact time and direction to point its cameras to capture these amazing images during the oh-so-brief flyby window.

It’s crazy how all of this based on Newton’s Laws of Motion from the 17th century, 350 yrs before the launch of this probe.

[tardiscommand]

2:51 absolutely correct. This was amazing seeing the progress photos back then as it approached and then met with a heart on the surface, almost a thanks for coming from Pluto. And yes I will always call it planet Pluto.

[CentralSweeper]

Fun fact: my 2nd grade project was on planets. I got Pluto. I ended up making a styrofoam sphere and painted it with help from my mom. I ended up really liking the project, and now I am thinking of astronomy as a possible career after Baseball or Nuclear Physics

[spidermeadows]

There's something just so tragically romantic about Pluto and Charon. From the barycenter splitting the distance between them, to them being tidally locked, to Pluto's hidden "heart:" it's the stuff of poetry!!

[Write-Stuff]

It's amazing that a probe can travel over 36, 000 mph for nearly 10 years in space and never collide with anything.