This was Charon, but the USNO telescope was unable to resolve the two objects clearly. It was not until 1994 that the Hubble Space Telescope produced the first image of both Pluto and Charon with ...

PhotoPhoto of Pluto and its moon Charon, as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1994. In the same part constellation, Orion, as Betelgeuse but even farther away is the Orion Nebula ...

Pluto can indeed capture Charon from a giant impact," team leader and University of Arizona lunar and planetary researcher Adeene Denton told Space.com. "The process of this collisional capture is ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given ...

The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...

Pluto seemed hopelessly cold and distant until 2015, when NASA’s New Horizons space probe beamed back ... term relationship with its largest moon, Charon. It started with a collision — one ...

But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking ... electricity in the final frontier, ... Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan ...

The water ripples out from where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup.