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The more we look with the James Webb Space Telescope, the more we find! The latest discovery? A tiny new moon orbiting Uranus.

This newly discovered satellite is very small—six miles (9.6 kilometers) in diameter—and orbits 35,000 miles (56,000 kilometers) from the center of Uranus. This puts the new moon within the intricate system of small moons orbiting close to the planet’s rings.

The new moon doesn’t have a name yet—that will need to be approved by the International Astronomical Union, the authority in assigning official names and designations to astronomical objects. To date, all moons of Uranus are named after characters from William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope’s works.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Moutamid (SWRI), M. Hedman (University of Idaho).

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