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wiredmagazine on August 22, 2025 11:06 am The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years. Read the full article: [https://www.wired.com/story/new-moon-identified-on-uranus-orbiting-close-to-its-ring-system/](https://www.wired.com/story/new-moon-identified-on-uranus-orbiting-close-to-its-ring-system/)
HMS_Exeter on August 22, 2025 12:09 pm Wonder what Shakespeare character they’ll name this one after? 🤔
Vsevolod_Kaplin on August 22, 2025 12:49 pm Despite the fact of 27.8 million subscribers, new posts are very rare on r/space. It’s not very difficult to open the previous page and discover post from 2 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1mul5db/james_webb_space_telescope_discovered_a_new_moon/ Maybe scientists already have found +1 new moon? Correct me if I’m wrong, how exactly rule “duplicates not allowed” is working here?
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The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
Read the full article: [https://www.wired.com/story/new-moon-identified-on-uranus-orbiting-close-to-its-ring-system/](https://www.wired.com/story/new-moon-identified-on-uranus-orbiting-close-to-its-ring-system/)
Wonder what Shakespeare character they’ll name this one after? 🤔
Despite the fact of 27.8 million subscribers, new posts are very rare on r/space.
It’s not very difficult to open the previous page and discover post from 2 days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1mul5db/james_webb_space_telescope_discovered_a_new_moon/
Maybe scientists already have found +1 new moon?
Correct me if I’m wrong, how exactly rule “duplicates not allowed” is working here?