Artist's Concept Shows the Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake and Its Newly Discovered Moon (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Artist's Concept Shows the Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake and Its Newly Discovered Moon

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This artist's concept shows the distant dwarf planet Makemake and its newly discovered moon. Makemake and its moon, nicknamed MK 2, are more than 50 times farther away than Earth is from the sun.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Parker (Southwest Research Institute)

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