New moon orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus.

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered around the seventh planet from the sun. The moon, which was first seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Feb. 2, joins a busy neighborhood of 28 other known moons around Uranus.

The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into one of the more mysterious planets in our solar system.

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

Tiscareno said the “complex inter-relationships” between Uranus’ moons and its faint rings suggest the planet’s evolutionary history may have been a chaotic one.