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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory


Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

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