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Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet

By Csaba Kiss | Konkoly Observatory, Donna Weaver/ Ray Villard | Space Telescope Science Institute, John Stansberry | Space Telescope Science Institute on May 19, 2017   Featured, Science/Education  

Hubble Spots Moon Around Third Largest Dwarf Planet

The combined power of three space observatories, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, has helped astronomers uncover a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. […]



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