Recent careful analysis of the early images from Pluto have turned up results that are astonishing and yet, perhaps, not surprising:
This explains a great deal…
I can’t take credit. I found this on that interweb tubes thing. The only credit, which I’ll echo, was: “Thank you, internet!”
I’ll say this: someone has an excellent eye to spot that possibility! Now I see the dog (not the “heart”) every time I look at that original image. (Like seeing the baker in the USA.)
Logos con carne 
July 15th, 2015 at 12:41 pm
I’m really happy they sent this image back from Pluto. Do we know any other things that the probe is going to do? Dangit, I want telemetry from interstellar space!
July 15th, 2015 at 3:17 pm
It was pretty cool watching the live feed from NH Mission Control as the “Phone Home” signal was picked up and each station reported in. I just watched today’s live teleconference and saw the new pics. Impressive!
This is a good place to see what New Horizons is doing: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/The-Flyby.php
July 15th, 2015 at 10:11 pm
He…I guess you can ignore my last comment on your other post. Damn. I thought I was so clever.
July 16th, 2015 at 11:26 am
Judging by the link you put in that other comment, quite a few people saw the “dog” in the “heart” image. I see they included the version I found as well as several others. The one they featured at the top of the article is the best, I thought. Wish I’d found that one instead!
July 19th, 2015 at 1:43 pm
I like saying the “dog on the planet Pluto,” becoming part of our vocabulary like the “man on the moon!” 🙂
July 19th, 2015 at 4:55 pm
Heh! A lot harder to see way out there, though! It took nine-and-a-half years flying faster than any spacecraft we’ve ever sent out there to get that snapshot! XD