New images from Pluto! New images of Comet 67P/C-G! New images of Ceres! This has been a week of “Too Much Input!” Yesterday, new images of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft had Twitter awash with admiration; some were saying that the following image is the most compelling ever released from the space program. I’m not quite there, but close – it is jaw-dropping! The ESA’s Rosetta mission posted some post-perigee images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, still active and jetting: NASA’s Dawn mission, currently in its high level mapping orbit, has been posting copious amounts of new images of the surface of dwarf planet Ceres: For years now, at every meeting of the Warren Astronomical Society, fellow Solar System Ambassador Ken Bertin has presented an “In the News” segment; he mentioned to me that two decades ago, there was so little astronomy and space science news, he had trouble putting together much of a report. Today, he has to sift through … Continue reading →