James Webb Space Telescope Finds New Moon Orbiting Uranus
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Uranus has a secret MOON: NASA's James Webb discovers a six-mile-wide natural satellite hiding near...
This week, NASA has uncovered a secret moon hiding in Uranus' orbit. The moon – which is yet to be named – was discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, and is believed to be around six miles wide. To put that into perspective, that's around 350 ...
"Our society is built on technologies that are highly susceptible to space weather," said NASA's Heliophysics Division Director Joseph Westlake in the release. "Just as we use meteorology to forecast Earth's weather, space weather forecasts predict the conditions and events in the space environment that can affect Earth and our technologies."
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNNASA’s Webb Telescope Unveils the Truth About TRAPPIST-1 d: Why It’s Not the Earth Twin We Expected
The TRAPPIST-1 system, home to seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a red dwarf star, has long been a target for astronomers studying potentially habitable exoplanets. Among these, TRAPPIST-1 d stood out as a promising candidate due to its position within the habitable zone of its host star,
The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded. On Tuesday, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope announced the discovery of a moon orbiting around the pale blue ice giant, bringing its total number of satellites to 29.
Scientists think the new tiny moon hid for so long -- even eluding the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby about 40 years ago — because of its small size.