#webb discovery

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New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope - NASA Science

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbi

The James Webb Space Telescope has unlocked another secret at the cold, dark edge of our solar system! A previously unseen moon was found orbiting Uranus. The new moon is within the intricate system of small moons orbiting close to the planet’s rings.

This newly discovered satellite is quite small—six miles (9.6 kilometers) in diameter.

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Often the search for answers leads to new questions. Still, astronomers did not expect to find the familiar shape of a question mark in the latest image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

A natural but rarely seen distortion of space is causing one dusty red galaxy to appear multiple times, raising the question that maybe such distortions are not as rare as originally thought: https://webbtelescope.pub/4cGUNpi