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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Dwarf planet Makemake has a moon

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a coal black moon orbiting a shiny red dwarf planet known as Makemake in the outer reaches of the solar system.

The newly discovered moon is estimated to be 100 miles across and it orbits the dwarf planet at a distance of just 13,000 miles. For comparison,...



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