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Moons of dwarf planets

  • S/2015 (136472) 1Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope toward the Kuiper belt in April 2015. They used a specific instrument called the Wide Field Camera 3 to scan…
  • Dysnomia (moon)On the 10th of September 2005, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii spotted a faint point of light orbiting the distant dwarf planet Eris.
  • Vanth (moon)On the 13th of November 2005, images from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a faint dot near the dwarf planet Orcus. Michael Brown and Terry-Ann Suer…
  • Xiangliu (moon)A faint point of light emerged from archival Hubble Space Telescope images taken on the 18th of September 2010. Csaba Kiss and his team had been analyzing…