Article E949 Pluto flyby photos thrill New Horizons scientists after nine-year Nasa mission

Pluto flyby photos thrill New Horizons scientists after nine-year Nasa mission

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Ian Sample Science correspondent
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Nasa spacecraft makes history as the first spacecraft to reach distant dwarf planet, the last unexplored world in solar system

" New Horizons probe makes contact with Earth after flyby

Cheers, whoops and flag waving broke out at Nasa's New Horizons control centre as scientists celebrated the spacecraft's dramatic flyby of Pluto, considered the last unexplored world in the solar system.

Related: Pluto flyby: Nasa awaits signal from New Horizons probe - live

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