Scientists Find a New Moon Orbiting Uranus
Save StorySave this storySave StorySave this storyA team of astronomers has found what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon orbiting Uranus. If confirmed, this finding would mean the gigantic blue-green ice planet would have 29 moons. The discovery was made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), extending the instrument’s list of achievements and raising expectations that other new discoveries might be made within the solar system.With JWST’s infrared camera, the researchers took ten 40-minute exposures of Uranus and detected a tiny, fuzzy dot accompanying the icy giant’s other moons. With the preliminary information gathered, the researchers estimate that it is a body of about 10 kilometers in diameter, located 56,000 kilometers from the center of the planet.This new…
