New Hubble images show similar colors for Pluto's moons

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These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto were taken on March 2 2006. Credit: NASA ESA A. Stern (Southwest Research Institute) H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Lab) and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team.
These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images of Pluto were taken on March 2, 2006. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Stern (Southwest Research Institute), H. Weaver (Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Lab), and the HST Pluto Companion Search Team.

Using new Hubble Space Telescope observations, a research team led by Dr. Hal Weaver of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute has found that Pluto's three moons are essentially the same color – boosting the theory that the Pluto system formed in a single, giant collision.


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