Here, just so you can compare, are photos that the Hubble Space Telescope took of the planet Pluto, the outermost planet.
The Sun enters Scorpio and aspects every slower planet except Pluto, and there's an intense Mars-Jupiter opposition.
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Astronomers today gave Pluto the heave ho, voting in an official definition for the word planet that leaves Pluto out.
Well, now another group of astronomers, many of whom are in favor of keeping Pluto a planet, is challenging that new definition, saying it doesn't set clear criteria for what makes a planet.
Last week an official panel recommended keeping Pluto as a planet and adding at least three, perhaps 40 more small objects.
When people think of the word planet, they think of large, special objects, and when you tell people about Pluto and make them realize that Pluto really is quite small, people even start to realize well, okay, maybe Pluto shouldn't be called a planet.
It is the third criterion that is being targetted by those who would see Pluto reinstated as a planet.
Pluto itself was demoted from full planet status following a vote at an IAU meeting in Prague in 2006.
And since the number of objects in the catalogue is fast approaching 10, 000, he advocates making Pluto the first five-figure minor planet.
Choice of a suitably fiddled threshold (say, 1, 000km) would then make Pluto, but not Ceres, a major planet.
But the host is likely to be between 3, 000 and one million times fainter than the Sun, so the top of the planet's atmosphere is likely to be colder than Pluto.
But part of the problem with the definition - I mean, as an example - is that if you look at Mars - if Mars - if we discovered a Mars-sized object out beyond the orbit of Pluto, it couldn't be a planet, because over the age of the solar system it wouldn't have time to clear its orbit.
Pluto, for example, is historically considered a planet, even though many astronomers argue that it is really just a large asteroid.
Opening with "Pluto, " an ode to the "overthrown" planet (and closing with "Pluton, " a French re-imagining of the song), the record makes its cheekiness immediately apparent.
Yes, not every child who has now grown into a twenty-something enjoyed a wealth of extraneous compliments, but for those who did, reality is proving to be as harsh as it is for poor Pluto to realize that not only is he not a planet anymore, but now there are a billion other planets to mock him.
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Unidentified Man: Is Neptune a planet, because everybody knows that Neptune's orbit is crossed by Pluto's.
And it's not even that Pluto's twin, Charon, is going to be a planet too.
Pluto's status as an astronomical hot potato if not as a major planet seems assured for some years yet.
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