New moons of Uranus and Neptune announced The Solar System has some new lunar members—the first new moon of Uranus discovered in more than 20 years, and likely the smallest, as well as two new moons of Neptune, one of which is the faintest moon ever discovered by ground-based telescopes. The discoveries were announced today by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. “The three newly discovered moons are the faintest ever found around these two ice giant planets using ground-based telescopes,” explained Carnegie Science’s Scott S. Sheppard. “It took special image processing to reveal such faint objects.” The new Uranian member brings the ice giant planet’s total moon count to 28. At only 8 kilometers, it is probably the smallest of Uranus’ moons. It takes 680 days to orbit the planet. Provisionally named S/2023 U1, the new moon will eventually be named after a character from a Shakespeare play, in keeping with the naming conventions for outer Uranian satellites. S/2023 U1 was first spotted on November 4, 2023, by Sheppard using the Magellan telescopes at Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Sheppard made follow-up observations at Magellan a month later in December. Using the month of observations and working with Marina Brozovic and Bob Jacobson of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to determine a possible moon orbit for the new find, Sheppard was able to locate the new member of Uranus’ pantheon in older images that he’d taken in 2021 at Magellan, as well as at the Subaru telescope in Hawaii. Sheppard also used the Magellan Telescope to find the brighter of the two newfound Neptunian moons. In collaboration with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, Chad Trujillo of Northern Arizona University, and Patryk Sofia Lykawa of Kindai University, he found the other new Neptunian moon, an extremely faint object, using the Subaru telescope. Both were first seen in September 2021. Content from NASA/ESA/CSA official website Animation from NASA.ESO.Pixapay and space Engine Music from TunTank Script, Edit and voice : M LOGABALAKARTHIKEYAN SEO By Meena If you want to follow me on social websites touch the link below 😊 vinveli Thagaval : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEde8HUzom-L4lRxo1Oe8fA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zenithofscience Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Zenithofscience Twitter: https://twitter.com/logabalakarthi3 Share chat : https://sharechat.com/profile/zenithofscience?d=n என்னை மேலும் ஆதரிக்க: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimELbi00gpqBzwXv6Zw2qA/join -------------- Disclaimer Fair Use: 1. The videos have no negative impact on the original works. 2. The videos we make are used for educational purposes. 3. The videos are transformative in nature. 4. We use only the audio component and tiny pieces of video footage, only if it's necessary. DISCLAIMER: Our channel is purely made for entertainment purposes, based on facts, rumors, and fiction. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing.n favor of fair use. *image and video credits are given at the beginning of the video!* video credits: this video has more than two animation clips. that clips are copied from NASA JPL #logabalakarthikeyan#nasa#jpl #AstroScience Sounds by : Music from Tunetank.com Stream Countdown 10s by Alexander Nakarada | https://www.serpentsoundstudios.com Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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