{"id":159070,"date":"2025-08-19T18:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159070\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T18:44:09","slug":"nasas-webb-telescope-finds-a-new-tiny-moon-around-uranus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159070\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/uranus-nasa-hubble-19a4d69e0778704a4fd01e6a6f6bd814\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">orbiting Uranus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" 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&#8217;s near-infrared camera during observations in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Scientists think it hid for so long \u2014 even eluding the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" 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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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&#8217;s total moon count to 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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 &#8212; The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[92300,166,347,4514,27902,159,783,167,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-159070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-92300","9":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-astronomy","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\/115056913129996909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159070","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=159070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}