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Pluto’s Charon sports a red cap that forms as seasons change

Scientists have figured out why Pluto’s moon Charon wears a red cap.

New laboratory work shows that the color results when ultraviolet light and the solar wind interact with hydrocarbons and turn them into a soup of organic compounds dubbed tholins.

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