Nix (moon)
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Nix, formal designation Pluto II, is a natural satellite of Pluto, with a diameter of 49.8 km across its longest dimension. It was discovered along with Pluto's outermost moon Hydra on 15 May 2005 by
Enhanced color image of Nix, taken by New Horizons
Discovery images of Nix and Hydra
Hubble image of Pluto's moons (annotated)
Nix half illuminated, imaged by New Horizons
Nyx
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In Greek mythology, Nyx is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera by Erebus. By herself, she produces a
Nix (moon)
…dimension. It was discovered along with Pluto's outermost moon Hydra on 15 May 2005 by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope, and was named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night. Nix is the third moon of Pluto by distance, orbiting between the moons Styx and Kerberos. Nix was imaged along with…
Nyx is shown driving to the left in a chariot pulled by two horses. To the right of her is Helios, who ascends into the sky in his quadriga at the start of the new day. Detail of an attic terracotta lekythos, attributed to the Sappho Painter, c. 500 BC.
Nyx depicted in the Paris Psalter presiding over the parting of the red sea, a 10th-century Greek manuscript, National Library of France
Roman-era bronze statuette of Nyx velificans or Selene (Getty Villa)
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