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Astronomers have produced a new colour map of Pluto, the most distant planet in our Solar System, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The detailed map shows areas likely to be methane frost and a bright spot perhaps made of frozen carbon monoxide.
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Google Earth file: Dwarf planet (134340) Pluto.kmz (15kb, kmz)
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Astronomers from around the world are heading to Canterbury University's Mount John observatory near Tekapo, New Zealand, for a rare event this month.
At 4.23am on June 13 the occultation of a faint 15th magnitude star by [url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=58381&sub...
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Pluto and two of its moons are occulting two stars in June. An occultation is when a body passes between us and a star. By watching the starlight fade out, we measure the atmosphere on Pluto and the sizes and positions of its airless moons. Like a solar eclipse, we need to be in just the right place at the ri...
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NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto These two images, taken about a week apart by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show four moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle in both snapshots marks the newly discovered moon, temporarily dubbed P4, found by Hubble i...
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Nix is a natural satellite of Pluto. It was discovered along with Hydra in June 2005, and is to be visited along with Pluto by the New Horizons mission in July 2015. The formal name of Pluto's moon "Nix", from the Greek goddess of darkness and night, and mother of Charon, was announced on June...
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Hydra is the second outermost known natural satellite of Pluto. It was discovered along with Nix in June 2005, and is to be visited along with Pluto by the New Horizons mission in July 2015. The name Hydra was announced on June 21, 2006, in IAU Circular 8723, along with the formal designation Pluto III....
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Just announced: Pluto has come company-- We've discovered a 5th moon using the Hubble Space Telescope Source
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