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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a tiny new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus, raising its moon count to 29.
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
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ScienceAlert on MSNJWST Just Found a New Moon Hiding Around Uranus (And It's Tiny)
In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...
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The Manila Times on MSNUranus lunar gang "recruits" new moon, as James Webb Telescope discovers the planet's 29th satellite
THE Uranus “lunar gang,” a name given to the 28 moons of the 7th planet “recruited” its newest member currently designated as ...
Astronomers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using NASA's ...
Like the Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
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Odd News on MSNScientists Give up Fighting Against ‘Uranus Jokes’. Also They Discovered a New ‘Moon’
If you can’t beat ‘em, bend over,” said a giggling Dr. Maryame El Moutamid, who also recently announced that the James Webb ...
Uranus has 28 known moons in its orbit, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists believe they just uncovered ...
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have discovered a tiny, previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus ...
There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” planetary scientist Matthew Tiscareno said.
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