Three new moons discovered around Uranus and Neptune

These are the faintest and smallest planets observed in the Solar System so far, but astronomers believe there may be many more.

The yellow arrow points directly to a small bright spot that reveals the presence of S/2023 U1, a new moon of Uranus, just 8 km across. The planet is just out of view in the upper left, as revealed by the increased light Scott Sheppard

Jose Manuel Nieves

01/03/2024

Updated at 1:42 p.m

A team of astronomers from the Washington-based Carnegie Institution for Science has managed to add three new moons to the ones we already know about in the Solar System. One of them around Uranus, which thus increases its number to…

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