Last year, for the first time in 14 years, an alignment of stars with Pluto created an opportunity to observe the atmosphere of this most remote of planets. Though tenuous, the atmosphere has, remarkably, expanded.
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Hubbard, W. Pluto's atmospheric surprise. Nature 424, 137–138 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/424137a
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