07/19/2013

Astronomers Spot Another Moon Around Neptune

10:40 minutes

Astronomers have detected a previously unseen moon orbiting Neptune, bringing the planet’s moon count to 14. Mark Showalter, an astronomer at the SETI Institute, describes how he spotted the 12-mile moon while combing through old images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Mark Showalter

Mark Showalter is senior research scientist at The SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.

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