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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 team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...
Scientists think the new tiny moon hid for so long -- even eluding the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby about 40 years ...
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 ...
The planet parade will include Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Aug. 21 is the last day the moon will be included in the parade, and it will line up with Mercury. The moon ...
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