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Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It's the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA NASA's Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres' south polar region on May 17, 2017.

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(Earth, of course, is the eighth planet, and poor Pluto was demoted in 2006 and is now considered a dwarf planet ... hear astronomers use it. However, NASA has been known to refer to the ...

According to NASA, multi-planet lineups are visible "every ... There are also five additional celestial bodies called dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake.