Neptune's moons perform strange orbit dance around each other
Two of Neptune's innermost moons perform a strange dance to avoid each other that is weird and completely unique compared to all known orbits, according to new research.
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30 years ago: Voyager 2 snaps photo of Neptune
Thirty years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant. Before this, the eighth planet in our solar system was only known as a fuzzy dot in the distance.
Meet Hippocamp, Neptune's new moon
For the first time in decades, a new tiny moon has been found in orbit around the gas giant Neptune, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Citizen scientists discover rare exoplanet
Although NASA's Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel and ended its mission in 2018, citizen scientists have used its data to discover an exoplanet 226 light-years away in the Taurus constellation.
First suspected 'exomoon' discovered 8K light-years away
For the first time, astronomers have discovered what could be an exomoon, a moon outside our solar system. The so-called exomoon, which is estimated to be the size of Neptune, was found in orbit around a gigantic gas planet 8,000 light-years from Earth.
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