"Vulcan" has topped a public vote to name two recently discovered moons of Pluto.
The choice will delight Star Trek fans; Vulcan is the home planet of Spock, science officer on the starship Enterprise.
The name had originally been suggested by William Shatner, the actor who portrayed Captain James T Kirk in the Star Trek TV series and films.
More than 450,000 people voted in an online poll run by the Seti institute.
The California-based organisation - which searches for intelligent life in the Universe - and Dr Mark Showalter, who led the teams that discovered the two moons, offered voters a choice of 21 possible names.
Currently, Pluto's two newly discovered moons - spotted in 2011 and 2012 - are known as P4 and P5.
Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed Spock, had previously tweeted that Vulcan was the "logical choice".
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