Alex Dominguez
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/ 1 November 2005

New images show three moons around Pluto

Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble space telescope suggest. Pluto, discovered as the ninth planet in 1930, was thought to be alone until its moon Charon was spotted in 1978. The new moons, more than twice as far away as Charon and many times fainter, were spotted by Hubble in May.