7 stunning NASA images of dwarf planets in solar system

What is dwarf planet?

A dwarf planet is a celestial body that orbits the sun, is roughly spherical, and has enough mass to form its shape under its own gravity, but not enough to clear its orbit of other objects.

Pluto, once considered 9th planet, is now considered as a dwarf planet because it doesn't meet the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria for a full-sized planet.

Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It was discovered in January 2005 by a Palomar Observatory–based team led by Mike Brown .

Haumea is an oval-shaped dwarf planet that is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. 

Nasa captured this stunning image of Makemake which is a dwarf planet that is in the Kuiper Belt that orbits the Sun beyond Neptune.

Ceres is a dwarf planet in the middle main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first known asteroid, discovered on 1 January 1801.

Quaoar is the fifth dwarf planet from the Sun, in the Kuiper belt, located in the Kuiper belt, one of the outermost regions of the Solar System.

Gonggong is a dwarf planet and a member of the scattered disc beyond Neptune. As of 2019, its distance from the Sun is 88 AU, and it is the sixth-farthest known Solar System object.

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