Pluto and Charon
This is the clearest view yet of the distant planet Pluto and its moon, Charon, as revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image was taken by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera (FOC) on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 2.6 billion miles (4.4 billion kilometers) from Earth; or nearly 30 times the separation between Earth and the sun.
Credit:About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | Charon, Pluto |
| Type: | Solar System : Planet : Satellite Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Dwarf planet |
| Category: | Solar System |
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Hubble Space Telescope
FOC |