US EditionNASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers a New Uranus Moon
- NASA announced the discovery of a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus, which is approximately six miles wide.
- This moon was spotted by the Webb Space Telescope's near-infrared camera during observations in February.
- The discovery increases the total number of known moons of Uranus to 29, named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.
- Scientists believe the moon evaded detection due to its faintness and small size, even eluding Voyager 2 during its flyby about 40 years ago.
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Scientists spot new moon orbiting Uranus: ‘A significant discovery’
A cheeky discovery. Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a few hours. NASA announced Tuesday that the still unnamed moon was captured by the Webb Telescope in February. The Uranus system has moons named for characters from British writers Shakespeare and Alexander Pope....
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A NASA team may have just discovered a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus
The new moon's estimated size is about 6 miles across, with its small size possibly contributing to its ability to hide from astronomers for so long, according to NASA.
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Noticias ao MinutoThe new member of Urano's "munar gong", the third largest planet of the Solar System, after Jupiter and Saturn, seems to have 10 kilometers of diameter.
In February, the James Webb telescope spotted this new satellite, which appears to be only ten kilometres wide. This new moon has not yet been named.
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