Posted in Astronomy at 11:00 on 28 October 2015
As seen in a composite image from Astronomy Picture of the Day 26/10/15.
Styx and Kerberos are pretty fuzzy and Hydra shows up as an odd shape but Nix is well delineated.
Charon of course has been photographed as a sphere.
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Posted in Astronomy at 13:00 on 27 July 2011
This was Astronomy Picture of the Day on 22/7/11.
The two photos, taken five days apart less than a month ago, show the four moons of Pluto; Charon, Nix, Hydra and P4 – so young it’s not yet been named – obviously in orbit around the main planetoid.
Four moons. Not bad for an object that was downgraded from planet status only recently.
Earth only has the one. (Cruithne isn’t properly a moon of Earth.)
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