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The sky today on Tuesday, January 27: The moon, the Pleiades, and Uranus

Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. January 26: Saturn's moons in motion The gibbous ...
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A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The moon, designated S/2025 U1, as well as 13 of the 28 other known moons orbiting Uranus. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. El Moutamid ...
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Uranus May Have More Moons Than We Previously Thought

A discovery by NASA reveals that Uranus has an additional small moon that was previously hidden to scientists. Discovered by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute using NASA's James Webb ...
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JWST Spots Tiny New Moon Just Outside Uranus's Rings, Bringing Total to 29

JWST has spotted the 29th moon of Uranus, finding an object that’s probably the size of a small city 2.7 billion kilometers away. Within six years of discovering Uranus, William Herschel had found two ...
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A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...
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A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 ...