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NASA discovers a new moon orbiting Uranus

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.

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NASA discovers new Uranus moon using James Webb Telescope

Astronomers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The new

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New moon discovered orbiting Uranus

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made an exciting discovery around the planet Uranus. During an observation on February 2nd, the telescope was able to identify a new moon (S/2025 U1) orbiting around the planet.

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James Webb Space Telescope Delivers 4K Amazing View Of Spiral Galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope's s MIRI and NIRCam instruments have captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 2090. The ...

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Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst ever

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond, and in doing so, encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

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'Holy cow!' How the James Webb Space Telescope took a selfie in space

NIRCam is capable of taking images of the 18 primary mirror segments, and it generated the selfie for engineering and alignment purposes, NASA said on its blog Friday (Feb. 11).

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