A new moon that has discovered that Uranus is revising

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for the latest residents of our solar system: a moon that has never been seen before circling Uranus.

A team of astronomers announced on Tuesday that a new satellite with around 90 soccer fields was discovered around the seventh planet of the sun. The moon, which was seen on February 2 by James Webb Space Telescope from NASA for the first time, follows in a busy neighborhood with 28 other well -known moons around Uranus.

The observations of the WebB telescope of Uranus give scientists a better insight into one of the more mysterious planets in our solar system.

“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus,” said Matthew Tiscareno, member of the research team and senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in California.

Tiscareno said the “complex interrelationships” between the moons of Uranus and his weak rings suggest that the evolutionary history of the planet could have been chaotic.

“In addition, the new moon is smaller and weaker than the smallest of the previously known inner moons, which it probably does that even more complexity can be discovered,” he said in the explanation.

According to researchers, the newly discovered satellite is around 35,000 miles from the middle of the planet with an almost circular orbit.

It is only about 6 miles away and a distance that can be walked at a speedy pace in about two hours-but follow-up observations are required to confirm the size of the moon and other properties.

The discovery has not yet been checked by experts.

Uranus has five large exterior moons called Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. The newly discovered moon is located in the orbits of the five larger moons, the researchers said.

According to NASA, all moons from Uranus are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. The new moon does not yet have a name, although every term must eventually be approved by the international astronomical Union, which monitors the official name name process for astronomical objects.

“It is a small moon, but a significant discovery that even NASA’s spaceship did not see almost 40 years ago during his Flyby,” said Maryame El Moutamid, senior scientist in the Southwest Research Institute Institute of the Solar System and the Exploration Department.

In 1986 the Voyager 2-probe was the first property produced by humans that came to Uranus and gave humanity the first close-ups of the distant planet. The historical encounter resulted in more than 7,000 uranium photographs and helped discovering two new rings and 11 new moons around the planet.

The tiny size of the latest moon probably made it too small when the cameras from Voyager 2 were seen, but the high-resolution instruments of the WebB telescope could throw more light on the planet and its system.

“I look forward to the discovery of this moon, how modern astronomy continues to build on the legacy of missions like Voyager 2,” said El Moutamid in the explanation. “Now, almost four decades later, the James Webb World Cup telescope is pushing this border even further.”

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