Meme affair: Twitter responds to Pluto flyby with hilarious tweets

For the first time, we go a up close and personal look at Pluto & discovered that it had a heart, but what sent the internet into a tizzy is a set of memes

FP Staff|Jul 15, 2015, 15:38:20 IST

In what can be called a historic moment for space exploration, an unmanned NASA spacecraft hurtled towards an area of space which has never been explored before and which scientists have nicknamed the 'Wild West' of space. The $700 million piano-sized Nasa spacecraft New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto on Tuesday.[caption id="attachment_2343422" align="alignleft" width="380"]

Pluto, up and close. Image courtesy: Twitter @NASA[/caption]As NASA started putting out pictures of Pluto were sent from New Horizons which showed that Pluto has a big heart, Twitter users went into a tizzy and started the hashtag #plutoflyby. The hashtag which hailed NASA's ambitious project started trending in no time.Even though a lot of people. including US President Barack Obama and Stephen Hawking, had only good things to say about the project, it also attracted its fair share of memes as well.Twitter users gave it the meme treatment with their trusted weapon, Photoshop, and the results are hilarious!Here's a look at the funniest memes and tweets-Let me sing Pluto a song

Not done humans, not done.

Woof woof. Remember me?

The Internet is capable of everything

We're sorry Pluto. We really are.

Pluto and its largest moon, Charon were turned into a smiley face, as well.

George Takei, from Star Wars was as usual pun-ny

Last, but not the least...