When it comes to the biggest bodies in the solar system beyond Neptune, Pluto tops the list. Charon, Pluto’s moon, has always been designated the runner-up.
Astronomers now have for the first time found an object that’s slightly bigger than Charon. It’s an icy body in the Kuiper belt, a reservoir of comets in the outer solar system.
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