Early this morning, we captured a unique image, showing together the wonderful spiral galaxy Messier 100 and the famous dwarf planet (1) Ceres. Here it is our image. The image above comes from the...
On 27 Mar. 2023, the dwarf planet (1) Ceres will shine apparently extremely close, actually superimposed, to the stunning spiral galaxy Messier 100, offering a unique view. We will show this cosmic “meeting” live,...
It is always special to look for the dwarf planet Pluto. Here it is this unique world, while it slowly move across the sky. The animation above comes from two 180-seconds exposures, remotely collected...
Our Solar System is a much more fascinating and complex place than many of us believe. Only ten years ago, astronomers decided that Pluto was indeed not a planet, but a dwarf one, creating...
Inspired by the idea to capture images of those dwarf planets still missing in the Virtual Telescope Project’s archives and after having success with Haumea last night, we wanted to try with (136472) Makemake....
As you probably know, the International Astronomical Union, when demoting Pluto from the status of planet, introduced a new class of objects, called “dwarf planets”. To date, we count five of them: Among them,...
A few days after the epic fly-by of Pluto by the New Horizons space probe, at Virtual Telescope we managed to capture a couple of images of that small, icy and far world. Each image...
While the Nasa spacecraft New Horizon is almost at its minimum distance from Pluto (expected for tomorrow, 14 July), last night at Virtual Telescope we imaged this cold and far dwarf planet. The image...
After a sight late in 2013, at Virtual Telescope we visited again the famous dwarf planet (136199) Eris again. It is always fascinating looking for far in the Solar System: Eris is the farthest...
Everybody out there knows the story of Pluto and how it was demoted (2006) from its status of ordinary planet. One of the events further triggering this decision was the announcement on 29 July 2005...
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