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So tiny telescopes missed it: Astronomers discover a 6-mile-wide mini-moon orbiting Uranus
At just about 10 km (6 miles) in diameter, S/2025 U1 is incredibly small as far as moons go; it’s so tiny that Voyager 2, which flew past Uranus over 38 years earlier, didn’t have the technological capacity to spot it.
Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...
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JWST 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 ...
Uranus has 28 known moons in its orbit, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists believe they just uncovered ...
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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