NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new, 29th satellite of Uranus, which was named S/2025 U1. According to NASA, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute(SwRI) identified the moon on the 2nd of February 2025, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29.
The diameter of the Moon is estimated to be only some 10 kilometres. And orbits the planet at a distance of about 56,000 kilometres. Maryame El Moutamid, a lead scientist in SwRI’s Solar System Science and Exploration Division, said, It’s a small moon but a significant discovery.
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