Charon, moon of Pluto...

Charon, moon of Pluto ... as we've never seen it before.  This is a synthetic photo, false colored using data and images collected by the New Horizons explorer.  Heretofore Charon has been no more than a few pixels on a Hubble telescope photo – now we're seeing real detail.  Awesome job, New Horizons team!  Via APOD, of course.  Full resolution version here.  More information here...