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Webb telescope spots Uranus’ 29th moon missed by Voyager 2 nearly 40 years ago
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. The discovery, announced by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), adds a small but important piece to the picture of Uranus’ dynamic system.
The moon - which is yet to be named - was discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, and is believed to be around six ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings diffused, they moved farther away from the planet. Eventually, that material can ...
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