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Sixteen Years Ago, On August 24th, 2006 – Pluto Lost Its Status as a Planet

On August 24th, 2006, people doing business as astronomers decided to define what a planet is and is not. Diminutive Pluto failed to meet their “you must have this much gravity to ride around this sun as a planet” requirement and was degraded.

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Milky Way Galaxy Photo by Graham Holtshausen on Unsplash

Sunday Spotlight: The Webb Telescope

It is not difficult to understand that we cannot even agree on how our universe and existence came to be. When you take the time to look into the evening sky and gaze upon the plethora of stars and realize that every one of those stars is another galaxy, like ours, of planets and moons circulating its sun, you may understand how insignificant we are.

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