"Discovery of 3 Tiny Moons Orbiting Uranus and Neptune"

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"Discovery of 3 Tiny Moons Orbiting Uranus and Neptune"
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Astronomers have discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus and two around Neptune, using ground-based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii. The newly found moons are the faintest ever discovered around these ice giant planets and have eccentric, distant, and inclined orbits. The Uranian moon is the first to be found in over 20 years and is likely the smallest of Uranus' 28 moons, while the Neptunian moons have sizes of 14 miles and 8.6 miles wide. The discoveries required special image processing and extensive observations to confirm their orbits, and the moons are believed to have been captured by the gravitational pull of their respective planets after their formation.

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