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The orbs were imaged by NASA's New Horizons probe from a distance of over 55 million miles (88.5 million kilometers)

The images, produced by the agency's Dawn spacecraft, were taken from a distance of just 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers)

In case you were wondering why astronomers call Pluto not a proper planet but a dwarf one, here's your answer

These days, Vesta is merely a space boulder traveling around the Sun nestled between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

Earlier this month, NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained the highest-resolution images of Ceres' north pole to date

Images produced by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show the spots rise above the dwarf planet's surface, are brighter at dawn

This past Friday, the Dawn spacecraft reached dwarf planet Ceres and successfully placed itself in its orbit

Earlier today, at 4:39 a.m. PST (7:39 a.m. EST), the spacecraft was captured by the dwarf planet's gravity

The spacecraft left Earth in September 2007, is expected to place itself in Ceres' orbit late Thursday night

NASA astronomers release new space images showing dwarf planet Ceres as pictured by the agency's Dawn probe

The mysterious white spots visible on the surface of Ceres could be impact craters, astronomers explain

The images were obtained by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, now en route to the distant Pluto system

The images were obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, show an odd bright spot lurking on the surface of the planet

The probe left our planet back in 2006, has since covered a distance of about 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers)

The image was beamed to Earth by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, now traveling through space towards the dwarf planet

Researchers claim to have found evidence that two undocumented dwarf planets are hiding well beyond Pluto

The spacecraft will fly close to the planet, snap as many photos of it as possible