Motion of Pluto’s Five Moons

Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto

This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The green circle marks the newly discovered moon, designated P5, as photographed by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 on July 7. Other observations that collectively...

Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto (Unannotated)

Compass and Scale Image of Pluto

This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows five moons orbiting the distant, icy dwarf planet Pluto. The newly discovered small moon, designated P5, is the innermost of the moons found by Hubble over the past seven years. The diagram shows that P5 is in a...