images

Pluto and Charon

by

ESA/ESO/Nasa/Novapix

Reference

a-plu02-00001

Date

2006-10-04

The image was taken by the Hubble space telescope on February 21, 1994 when the planet was 2.6 billion miles (4.4 billion kilometers) from Earth; or nearly 30 times the separation between Earth and the sun.