Discover the 5th moon of Pluto

The Hubble Space Telescope has just discovered the 5th moon around the Pluto dwarf planet.

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After analyzing data from multiple images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope of the US Space Agency (NASA), Dr. Mark Showalter and his colleagues from Seti Research Institute (USA) discovered the fifth moon. of the planet Pluto and named P5.

The new moon has been discovered that P5 is a small moon
The most among the moons of Pluto

Moon P5 is the smallest moon of Pluto discovered so far. Unlike the previously developed moons, P5 is in elliptical form with a length of about 25km and a width of about 10km.

Pluto's fifth moon detection will help scientists better understand the planet's formation process. Some astronomers had previously suggested that all the moons of Pluto were the remnants of a collision between this planet and an ice object billions of years ago.

'Pluto's moons are from small to big, very similar in size, similar to the arrangement of Russian dolls,' said Dr. Mark Showalter, head of the research.

The biggest moon of Pluto is Charon discovered in 1978. Later, the Hubble space telescope discovered two more smaller moons, Nix and Hydra. The fourth moon, called P4, was discovered by Hubble telescope in 2011.

In 2006, NASA launched an unmanned probe into New Horizons and expected it to fly into the planet of Pluto in 2015. New Horizons has a mission to explore and record images of the surface of the star. Pluto and its moons.

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by American scientist Clyde Tombaugh. It is considered the 9th planet of the Solar System until it was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.