How our sun looks from the dwarf planet Makemake

By Cosmic Tribune on December 26, 2012   Dwarf planets, Impacting, Planets, Pluto, Sun  

[CLICK ON IMAGE FOR HIGH RESOLUTION / credit: European Southern Observatory] Makemake is one of the largest objects known in the outer Solar System. Pronounced MAH-kay MAH-kay, this Kuiper belt object is about two-thirds the size of Pluto, orbits the Sun only slightly further out than Pluto, and appears only slightly dimmer than Pluto. … […]