Today is a great day for science and the New Horizons probe flew by the dwarf planet Pluto this morning.

NASA’s New Horizons probe flew by Pluto this morning (July 14), capturing history’s first up-close looks at the far-flung world — if all went according to plan. (Mission team members won’t declare success until they hear from New Horizons tonight.) Closest approach came at 7:49 a.m. EDT (1149 GMT), when the spacecraft whizzed within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto’s frigid surface. To celebrate, NASA unveiled the latest photo of Pluto, showing a reddish world with a stunning heart-shaped feature on its face.

Source: Space.com

After spending a bit of time with Pluto, it’s onto the Kuiper belt for New Horizons and who knows what it’ll find out there at the edge of the known solar system… I’m definitely going to share pictures and the video with Brandon when I get home tonight, it’s amazing what we’ve done since the start of the space age. 🙂