Our solar system has glamorous planets: ringed Saturn, multicolored Jupiter, and ruddy red Mars. But arguably one of the most popular worlds for the public is the tiny and distant Pluto.

And, it has much more of a kinship with the other major planets than you might imagine as revealed today in high resolution pictures from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the lenses of the largest ground-based telescopes. From Earth, the disk of Pluto is ten times smaller than the typical resolution limit of a ground-based telescope. In other words, apart from that speck of light, no features on the dwarf planet’s surface can be seen.

But using the power of Hubble, Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder Colorado has persevered to assemble the most detailed view of Pluto ever. Read more at news.discovery.com