Sunday, October 13, 2013

Naiad Rediscovered

The tiny moon of Neptune, Naiad, hadn't been seen since its discovery by Voyager 2 in 1989.  Recently, however, it was rediscovered by researchers using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004.

The researchers say the orbit of Naiad changed in that fifteen years.  They also discovered an even smaller Neptunian moon.

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