{"id":10972,"date":"2025-08-20T06:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10972\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:38:08","slug":"nasas-webb-telescope-finds-a-new-tiny-moon-around-uranus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10972\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa\u2019s Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus.<\/p>\n<p>The new member of the lunar gang, announced on Tuesday by Nasa, appears to be just six miles wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was spotted by the telescope\u2019s near-infrared camera during observations in February.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" title=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Scientists think it hid for so long \u2014 even eluding the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby about 40 years ago \u2014 because of its faintness and small size.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Uranus has 28 known moons that are named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">About half are smaller and orbit the planet at closer range.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This newest addition, still nameless, ups the planet\u2019s total moon count to 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member of the lunar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,8506,133,10612],"class_list":{"0":"post-10972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-place-international","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-uranus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}