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A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours
A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered around the seventh planet from the sun. The moon, which was first seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Feb. 2, joins a busy neighborhood of 28 other known moons around Uranus.
Uranus may have a 29th moon
“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a chaotic history that blurs the boundary between a ring system and a system of moons,” SETI Institute researcher Matthew Tiscareno said in a statement for NASA.
A cheeky discovery. Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a ...
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James Webb Spots Mysterious Object Orbiting Uranus
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet's known ...
Scientists think the new tiny moon hid for so long -- even eluding the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby about 40 years ...
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