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Wee Worlds: Our 5 (Official) Dwarf Planets: Media

Learn all about Pluto and its pals.

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Pluto
M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute)/ESA/NASA
Pluto and its large moon, Charon, appear overexposed in this Hubble Space Telescope...
NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL), A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team
New Horizons near Pluto
Artist's rendering of the New Horizons spacecraft approaching Pluto and its three...
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope showing the dwarf planet Eris in visible...
ESA/NASA
rotation of Ceres
Series of six images showing the rotation of Ceres, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope....
ESA/STScI/NASA
Haumea
Artist's rendering of Haumea and its moons.
NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
Makemake
Makemake, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration