NASA announced the discovery of the 29th satellite of Uranus

Scientists from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have discovered the 29th satellite of Uranus S/2025 U1 using the James Webb telescope. This was announced by NASA on the official website on August 19.

"This is a small satellite, but an important discovery that even NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft did not see during its flyby almost 40 years ago," the publication says.

It is noted that the satellite was detected on a series of 10 40-minute long-exposure images taken by a near-infrared camera. Its diameter is only about 10 kv, which allows the new satellite to become the smallest in the orbit of Uranus.

"It is located about 35,000 miles (56,000 km) from the center of Uranus, orbiting the equatorial plane of the planet between the orbits of Ophelia and Bianca. Its almost circular orbit was presumably formed near its current location," said Maryame El Mutamid, a leading researcher at the SwRI Department of Science and Research of the Solar System.

Earlier, on August 11, an international group of astronomers recorded for the first time the moment of the beginning of the formation of planets around the central star. Astronomers have discovered the moment when planets began to form around a star located about 1.3 thousand light-years from Earth. This discovery was made using powerful instruments — the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile. The discovery gave scientists a unique insight into exactly how the first stages of planet formation occur in young epochs.

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