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Tag Archives: Pluto

Featured Articles, Science News for Students

My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

Link March 4, 2017 Ron Cowen

My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

Alice BowmanastronomyCathy OlkinCoralie JackmanJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryMark HoldridgeNASANew HorizonsPlutosciencespace
EOS, Featured Articles

Pluto’s four tiny outer moons are spinning like crazy

November 10, 2015 Ron Cowen

Pluto’s four tiny outer moons are spinning like crazy.

Here’s a video of the spinning, courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute:

American Astronomical SocietyHubble TelescopeMark ShowaltermoonsNew HorizonsPlutosciencespace
EOS, Featured Articles

Frigid Pluto may have at least two ice-eruption volcanoes!

Link November 9, 2015 Ron Cowen

Frigid Pluto may have at least two ice-eruption volcanoes!

Alan SternAmerican Astronomical SocietyastronomyKelsi SingerNew HorizonsOliver WhitePiccard MonsPlutosciencespaceWright Mons

Science Writer

Ron Cowen

Award-winning science writer with a passionate interest in the intersection of popular culture and the physical sciences. Articles include features and news stories on the earliest known recorded sounds, an essay on Hubble Space Telescope photography and evidence suggesting the universe is a hologram.

Dubbed “the scoop machine,” by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Ron has been published in National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times, Science, Science News, Scientific American, and US News & World Report.

To get in touch with Ron, email him at roncowen [at] msn.com.