Love is easy to spell and notoriously difficult to define, but ever since its dramatic discovery in 1930, Pluto seems to have captured the love of many people the world over. Perhaps this is because Pluto is a small and very remote world, lost in the incredible, frigid darkness of the outermost region of our Solar System, where our Sun appears in its dark sky as just another bright star swimming in a mesmerizing sea of starlight. Mystery is captivating, and Pluto has remained an alluring and bewitching mystery for almost a century, located as it is so very far from the feeble fire of our distant Star. On July 14, 2015, after a decade-long, very treacherous, and difficult journey through our Solar System, NASA's plucky New Horizons spacecraft successfully made its historic closest approach to Pluto, at about 7,750 miles above its long-hidden surface--approximately the same distance that it is from New York to Mumbai, India--making it the first-ever space mission to explore a wor
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