Never-Before-Seen Up-Close Photos Of Pluto Almost Here After 9 Long Years

Pluto: you were a planet, then you weren't, and now I guess you are again? At any rate, we'd love to get closer to you, by any means necessary.

That's why this gorgeous teaser trailer for next month's Pluto flyby—by the National Space Society—has us jumping in our vacuum-sealed space boots. The New Horizons space craft has been shooting through our solar system since 2006, and on July 14 it will give us the closest view we've ever had of the lil' planet.

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Whoa. Wake us up when it's July 15, please.


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