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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 Was Hiding a Moon Outside Its Rings
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 start to accumulate, recycling itself back into a moon.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29.
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Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet's count of natural ...
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