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Webb telescope spots Uranus’ 29th moon missed by Voyager 2 nearly 40 years ago
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. The discovery, announced by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), adds a small but important piece to the picture of Uranus’ dynamic system.
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.
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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 ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings diffused, they moved farther away from the planet. Eventually, that material can ...
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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Don't miss the moon rendezvous with the Pleiades in the early morning sky Aug. 16–17
The moon will sweep close to the Pleiades open star cluster in the early morning hours of Aug. 16-17, with the ice giant ...
August New Moon carries an air of unpredictability. Forming a tense square with Uranus, the planet of sudden shifts, it opens ...
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