Night Falls on Pluto's Big Moon Charon (Photo)

Monday, January 25, 2016 - 08:03 in Astronomy & Space

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is cloaked in darkness, with just a tiny sliver lit up by the distant sun, in a photo captured by NASA's New Horizon spacecraft on July 17, 2015, three days after the probe's historic flyby of Pluto.

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