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45 Years Ago: Astronomers Discover Pluto’s Moon Charon

Using “Charon-light,” Researchers Image Pluto’s Dark Side in Faint Moonlight

Five Years after New Horizons’ Historic Flyby, Here Are 10 Cool Things We Learned About…

A Prehistoric Puzzle in the Kuiper Belt

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The science team of NASA New Horizons mission has produced this global map of Pluto largest moon, Charon. The map includes all available resolved images of the surface acquired between July 7-14, 2015 on the anti-Pluto facing hemisphere.

The artist rendition shows the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed Sedna, in relation to other bodies in the solar system, including Earth and its Moon; Pluto; and Quaoar, a planetoid beyond Pluto.

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