Meet Makemake, the red jewel of the Kuiper Belt. 🔴❄️

Essential facts about this distant dwarf world:

• Takes over 300 Earth years to orbit the Sun once

• Surface is coated in frozen methane pellets turned reddish by cosmic rays

• Its discovery helped trigger Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet

• Orbited by MK2, a tiny moon as black as charcoal

• A single day lasts 22.8 hours—almost identical to Earth