Overview
- Three new moons have been discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, marking the first such findings in over a decade.
- The moons were identified using ground-based telescopes and required special image processing to reveal their faint presence.
- One of the moons orbiting Uranus is the smallest ever discovered around the ice giant, measuring just 5 miles across.
- The newly discovered moons have eccentric, distant, and inclined orbits, suggesting they were captured by the gravitational pull of Uranus and Neptune.
- The discovery of these moons supports the idea that the moon systems of the giant planets are similar, despite the planets' differences.