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Uranus Has a Tiny New Moon and It's Only Six Miles Wide

NASA’s Webb telescope spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus

‎Future Einstein's Behold! ‎Uranus has a new moon orbiting its hill sphere. Uranus hosts yet another moon, which looks like a tiny, faint smudge in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Researchers report in an Aug. 19 NASA release. The newfound unknown object makes the 29th observed lunar companion for the sideways-tilted ice giant (Uranus).

"Uranus is a very strange planet", says planetary scientist Maryame El Moutamid of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Most of its rings are narrow, just a few kilometers wide, hinting that moons orbiting their edges might constrain the rings’ sizes. The newfound moon, currently called "S/2025 U1", it is located about 56,000 kilometers away from Uranus’s center, orbiting in a circular path. El Moutamid and colleagues calculated that the moon is roughly 10 kilometers wide, based on comparisons to the planet’s other known moons, the researchers still seeking for more information and data for accurate measurements.

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