Astronomers spot new tiny moons around Neptune and Uranus
Astronomers spot new tiny moons around Neptune and Uranus
The moon count in our solar system just went up by three. Astronomers have found two previously unknown moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus.
Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system — two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus.
The distant tiny moons were spotted using powerful land-based telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, and announced Friday by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center.
The latest tally puts Neptune at 16 known moons and Uranus at 28.
One of Neptune’s new moons has the longest known orbital journey yet. It takes around 27 years for the small outer moon to complete one lap around Neptune, the vast icy planet farthest from the sun, said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington who helped make the discovery.
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Uranus is so big that it have 28 moons and counting
Wait. That's no moon, that's an hemorroid!
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I'll see myself out.