Hubble made 35 images of Sedna on March 16, 2004. Sedna moves with respect to a much more distant background star. The movement is due not to Sedna's plodding orbital pace, but to Earth's quicker motion around the Sun. Astronomers use the resulting parallax to determine Sedna's distance. No moon appears in the images.

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