{"id":158924,"date":"2025-08-19T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158924\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:26:13","slug":"nasa-telescope-spots-a-new-moon-around-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/158924\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA telescope spots a new moon around Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uranus-nasa-hubble-19a4d69e0778704a4fd01e6a6f6bd814\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">orbiting Uranus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/neptune-uranus-new-moons-53028053d8944883cf42647e5196e21e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new member of the lunar gang<\/a>, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles (10 kilometers) wide. It was spotted by the telescope\u2019s near-infrared camera during observations in February.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists think it hid for so long \u2014 even eluding the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-voyager-spacecraft-578152fef6a7b497015247dfcd7a484f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Voyager 2 spacecraft<\/a> during its flyby about 40 years ago \u2014 because of its faintness and small size.<\/p>\n<p>Uranus has 28 known moons that are named after characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. About half are smaller and orbit the planet at closer range. This newest addition, still nameless, ups the planet\u2019s total moon count to 29.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":158925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[166,92243,4514,165,27902,159,783,167,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-158924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","9":"tag-alexander-pope","10":"tag-astronomy","11":"tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","12":"tag-planets","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-space-exploration","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115056606263076470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}