The names Nix and Hydra have been approved for the two small satellites of Pluto discovered in May 2005. The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for ...

While Pluto’s largest moon Charon has grabbed most of the lunar spotlight, two of Pluto’s smaller and lesser-known satellites are starting to come into focus via new images from the New Horizons ...

Nix and its fellow small moons Kerberos, Styx and Hydra wobble because they're embedded in the strong-arm gravity field of the Pluto-Charon duo . I say duo because Pluto and Charon are similar enough ...

Assembled into a seven-frame movie, the new images provide the spacecraft's first extended look at Hydra (identified by a yellow diamond ) and its first-ever view of Nix (orange diamond). Credit: NASA ...

LOS ANGELES – Meet the newest kids in the solar system: Nix and Hydra. The pair of moons orbiting Pluto were officially christened last week by the International Astronomical Union. Until last year, ...

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