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Live Science on MSNUranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
Tiny Moon NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet's known satellites to 29. In early February, the space observatory's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) caught the minuscule and still-unnamed object orbiting Uranus' center at a distance of 35,
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Space.com on MSNScientists find tiny new moon around Uranus with the James Webb Space Telescope (photos, video)
A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of Uranus using JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) in order to find the small moon. Its discovery brings the total number of known Uranian moons to 29.
Even though S/2025 U1 is pretty tiny, measuring only 10km wide, the team behind the moon spotting say that it's big news.
NASA said a tiny moon has been found by the Webb Space Telescope orbiting the planet Uranus. The moon is only six miles wide and was found by Webb’s near-infrared camera, The Associated Press reported. That’s about the length of a 10K. Scientists believe that it was missed for so long because it is tiny and is faint, the AP reported.