Pluto will no longer be just a blurry photo in a textbook.

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The dwarf planet is still receiving sympathy for its 2006 demotion, and fans of the former ninth planet will get to see Pluto like never before when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passes within 7,767 miles of the frigid rock on Tuesday.

Launched several months before Pluto lost its coveted planetary title, New Horizons has spent the last 9.5 years powering through the isolation of space in order to give Pluto its first up close photo op, according to The Associated Press.

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Scientists and amateur astronomers alike can see the new images as early as Wednesday thanks to the New Horizon's John Hopkins team and NASA. Although the closest pass will take place early on Tuesday morning, according to the Associated Press, New Horizon's will be working over time and won't send it's data to Earth for many hours.

Even the photos published on Sunday and Monday are worth a gander as they are far superior to that fuzzy blue dot students have been puzzling over since the Hubble Space Telescope first snagged grainy snaps of the outer reaches of our solar system.

Click here to see the most recent images from New Horizons.

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