Neptune's New Moon

[Paranoidsam]

As far as I can tell this seems to be hot off the press... Hubble has discovered new a small satellite orbiting Neptune. Only 12 miles diameter, so small that Voyager missed it...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23318301

[TieFighter8114]

Here is the link from NASA. http://hubblesite.org/news/2013/30

There is a press release link also. It is roughly 100 million times fainter than the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye.

[Paranoidsam]

Here is the link from NASA. http://hubblesite.org/news/2013/30

There is a press release link also. It is roughly 100 million times fainter than the faintest star that can be seen with the naked eye.

Yes, incredibly faint. They only found it when someone spotted a speck that kept cropping up in photographs... that's a really old school way of discovering objects.

[ibraidwo]

It's amazing to think that with so many scopes looking up into the sky, for so many years now, that we keep finding new things in our solar system!

[Monty]

Yes, incredibly faint. They only found it when someone spotted a speck that kept cropping up in photographs... that's a really old school way of discovering objects.

Just goes to prove that hard work and dedication pays off...