Pluto and Giant Moon Charon Imaged By Probe | Video

Monday, August 11, 2014 - 11:00 in Astronomy & Space

NASA’s New Horizons snapped the big dwarf planet and its nearby moon for 5 days (July 19th-24th, 2014). Charon is 750 - 753 miles diameter, the largest known compared to the size of its host planet. Some consider Pluto-Charon a binary planet.

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