Astronomers have discovered with James Webb (JWST) space telescope New Moon Planet Uranus. The celestial body with the preliminary designation S/2025 U1 is 29. The US National Aviation and Space Authority (NASA) announced on Tuesday. TASR informs about this on Wednesday’s DPA report.
It is assumed that The moon is only ten kilometers wide. It has been discovered on a series of ten films with a 40-minute exposure made by the Nircam infrared camera. The data was analyzed by scientists in the Southwest Research Institute (Swri) in Colorado.
The new moon is so small and weakly visible that it has escaped attention and attention Probe Voyager 2 during its flight around uranium almost 40 years ago.
Uranus is the third largest and fourth most massive planet of the solar system. It is one of the giant giants and together with Neptune also among the so -called. Ice giants. He has the name after the Greek god of heaven to Uranus.
The newly discovered Moon orbits an almost circular track at a distance of approximately 56,000 kilometers from the center of the planet between the tracks of inner months Ophelia and Bianca.
All Uranus’s months have been named after characters from the works of two English poets William Shakespeare and Alexander Pop. The official name of the new month will be decided by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which will take some time.
A new addition to the Uranus family, according to Matthew Tiscaren of the Seti Institute, who participated in the discovery, indicates that other small circles are waiting for discovery “Probably many more, we just have to look for,” Tiscareno said.
