That’s no moon! Just this past week, the Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. The dward planet is one of the oldest planetary object left in our solar system, and as such could provide valuable information about the early formation of the planets; it is an in-between step, a half-way formed planet that began it’s life just like Earth. Dawn will not orbit around to the bright side of Ceres until mid April, at which point we can expect to receive hundreds of high resolution images.