Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.
New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...
We went to the public library in Sham Shui Po during our school’s reading week. Hong Kong’s public libraries give us many ...
Charon is half the size of Pluto, “making it the largest known moon relative to its parent planet in our solar system,” NASA notes. So how did Pluto get its chonky companion? A new study ...
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Why is Pluto not considered a planet?
When the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted Pluto from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it surprised a lot of people, including some scientists. Even many years later, some ...
Pluto is no longer classified as a planet, it’s a dwarf planet, however, it still has five moons. Now astronomers say they ...
With Charon being half Pluto’s size, experts have struggled to explain how it ended up in the dwarf planet’s domain. Now, a team of researchers has suggested that Pluto may have secured Charon ...
Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the ...
Among these celestial powerhouses, Pluto stands out as a force of profound transformation, and when this enigmatic planet enters the domain of Sagittarius, the result is a captivating symphony of ...