Pluto [PHOTOS] NASA New Horizons: Stephen Colbert, Neil DeGrasse Tyson Talk Dwarf Planet

Images of Pluto recently surfaced thanks to NASA's New Horizons spaceship. For the first time, we're able to get a glimpse at what the dwarf planet actually looks like. And while the world is oh, so excited over the photos, it appears astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson thinks its "awesome minus ten percent." Or, at least, that's what he told soon-to-be Late Show host Stephen Colbert.

After some in-depth talk about both Pluto and its girlfriend Charon, Tyson told Colbert that he's is excited about the photos but he would feel more strongly about it if Pluto was "a much bigger place."

"It's not every day where you get to be the first eyes to set upon a completely undiscovered land," Tyson admitted, calling the news both beautiful and exciting because up until yesterday no one had ever seen the photos of Pluto. And after the high-resolution photos are downloaded to Earth (literally), we'll be able to have more detail than what we initially see in the first set of photos.

And after discussing the excitement factor, Tyson admits he only feels "some love" for Pluto, even going so far as refusing to call it a (dwarf) planet.

"Why do you believe that it is not a planet?" Colbert asked. To that, the Director of the Hayden Planetarium related Pluto to automobiles. "If Neptune were a Chevy Impala parked at the curb, ask yourself: what car would Pluto be?"

The answer? A Matchbox car.

What Tyson was getting at was the sheer size of Pluto. He believes calling it a "planet" would be insulting to the rest of the planets in the solar system.

Take a look at Colbert and Tyson discussing Pluto (and eating Klondike bars and drinking Tang) below:

Great – we're living on a dwarf planet. Great...