Pluto thought to have two more moons

Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest.

Pluto has three moons, not one, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope suggest.

The planet, discovered as the ninth in the Solar System in 1930, was thought to be alone until its moon Charon was spotted in 1978.

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