The Mysterious Ridges Near Pluto s Heart

Astronomers may have figured out some cool geology on Pluto, and Barnard s star is back in the running for having a planet! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: rokoko, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0592-z https://www.nasa.gov/content/washboard-and-fluted-terrains-on-pluto-as-evidence-for-ancient-glaciation https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-features-given-first-official-names https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720356/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2016/01/08/probing-the-mysterious-glacial-flow-on-plutos-frozen-heart/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.05702.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0677-y https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/barnards-star-closest-stars-famous-stars https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/bad-news-space-fans-barnards-star-151one-of-our-suns-closest-neighbors-151is-barren/261310/ http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/exoplanets/direct-imaging.html Images: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-features-given-first-official-names https://www.nasa.gov/content/washboard-and-fluted-terrains-on-pluto-as-evidence-for-ancient-glaciation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alpha,_Beta_and_Proxima_Centauri_(1).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RedDwarfPlanet.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler_spacecraft_artist_render_(crop).jpg