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Pluto and Charon

author: ESA/ESO/Nasa/Novapix

reference: a-plu02-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 12 * 6 cm

The image was taken by the Hubble space telescope 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.

Keywords for this photo:

134340 PLUTO - 1994 - ASTRONOMY - CHARON - DWARF PLANET - FALSE COLOR - GLOBAL VIEW - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - PLUTO - PLUTO'S MOON - PLUTOID - SATELLITE - TNO - TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECT -