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An annotated picture of some of Neptune's many moons as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright blue diffraction star is Triton, Neptune's largest moon; while Hippocamp, its smallest regular moon, is too small to be seen. The planet Neptune has 16 known moons, which are named for minor water deities and a water creature in Greek ...
An annotated picture of Neptune's many moons as captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright blue diffraction star is Triton, Neptune's largest moon. Neptune has 16 known moons. [155] Triton is the largest Neptunian moon, accounting for more than 99.5% of the mass in orbit around Neptune, [i] and is the only one massive enough to be ...
Unlike most planetary moons, which are named from antiquity, all the moons of Uranus are named after characters from the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope's work The Rape of the Lock. Neptune has 16 known moons; the largest, Triton, accounts for more than 99.5 percent of all the mass orbiting the planet. Triton is large enough to have ...
Along with its bright rings, the Webb observatory spied Neptune's fainter dust bands and seven of the planet's 14 known moons. The last time Neptune's rings were seen in detail was during a flyby ...
Both moons, which bring the total of Neptune’s known natural satellites to 18, were first spotted in September 2021, but required follow-up observations with different telescopes over the past ...
Surface features of Neptune's moons (8 P) T. Triton (moon) (1 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Moons of Neptune" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Nereid, or Neptune II, is the third-largest moon of Neptune. It has the most eccentric orbit of all known moons in the Solar System . [ 4 ] It was the second moon of Neptune to be discovered, by Gerard Kuiper in 1949.
Saturn and moons Voyager 2: 1979 flyby Jupiter and moons 1981 flyby Saturn and moons 1986 flyby Uranus and moons 1989 flyby Neptune and moons Ulysses: 1992, 2004 gravity assist Jupiter Galileo: 1995–2003 orbiter Jupiter and moons 1995 atmospheric Jupiter Cassini–Huygens: 2000 gravity assist Jupiter and moons 2004–2017 orbiter Saturn and ...