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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.
A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours
Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into one of the more mysterious planets in our solar system.
“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...
Half a dozen planets - Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - will put on a dazzling display in the sky on ...
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