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New Uranus Moons and Rings Discovered

Posted by Zonk on from the remember-the-children-before-you-post dept.

Patrick Furlong writes "CNN reports that the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered two new moons and two new rings around Uranus. The moons had been imaged by Voyager 2 in 1986 but were not recognized as moons at the time." More from MSNBC, and the official Hubble Site. From the CNN article: "The Hubble images also confirmed the existence of another moon, Perdita, which was first identified in the Voyager 2 pictures but had eluded telescopes ever since. Many moons of Uranus are named after characters in Shakespeare, and these new moons follow suit. Mab is named for Queen Mab, who is the subject of a famous speech by the character Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'"

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  1. Mod Parent up by FinchWorld · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How that deserved a troll mod i have no idea, maybe we need a -1 unfunny, but troll ain't the substitute.

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  2. Re:Gas giants and rings by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
    A large part of Uranus is methane hahahahahahahahaha
    If it were much more massive, it would be a brown dwarf hahahahahahahahaha
    It's the seventh-most planet fron the Sun hahahahahahahahaha

    Man, I just can't get enough of that planetology humor!

  3. Itchy by PacketScan · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What size were these hemroids?

    Hemorrhoids (hemroids)

  4. Re:It's in postscript, so be warned! by Keith+McClary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This seems to refer to a ring centred on the Sun lying in the Earth's orbit.