Science Daily·3 min read·medium
Neptune’s tiny moons may be the wreckage of shattered ancient worlds
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Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that Neptune's inner moons may be debris from an ancient satellite system destroyed by the capture of Triton. This provides new evidence for a catastrophic history in Neptune's orbital evolution.
In 1989, Voyager 2 discovered six previously unknown moons around Neptune. Five of them are tiny satellites that travel just beyond the planet's main rings. Their small size and distant location have made them extremely difficult to investigate from Earth.
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