Astronomers discover 3 previously unknown moons orbiting planets in our solar system Ashley Strickland, CNN Wed, February 28, 2024 at 11:34 AM CST·4 min read Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have discovered three previously unknown moons around Uranus and Neptune, the most distant planets in our solar system. The find includes one moon spotted orbiting Uranus — the first discovery of its kind in more than 20 years — and two detected in Neptune’s orbit. “The three newly discovered moons are the faintest ever found around these two ice giant planets using ground-based telescopes,” said Scott S. Sheppard, astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, in a statement. “It took special image processing to reveal such faint objects.” ... https://news.yahoo.com/astronomers-discover-3-previously-unknown-173400959.html That's pretty cool. It's not every day new moons are discovered in our solar system. I really wish someone would send orbiters to these two planets. They have been neglected ever since the Voyager mission paid them a brief visit.
I only recently found out there are more 'planetoids' (like Pluto) beyond Pluto orbiting our sun. They're more moon sized. It doesnt seem that we know a lot about them.
Dwarf planets? Yeah, we now know about several of those too. Pluto is no longer unique. It would be fun to see how the others differ from Pluto. It's really cool that the New Horizons mission was also able to pass by Arrokoth, a.k.a. Ultima Thule, not long after visiting Pluto as well. It's a weird reddish snowman made up of two bodies that seem to have become conjoined, but haven't merged together into one larger body. They must have been in a binary orbit before finally coming together like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/486958_Arrokoth
