Our solar system may have a new permanent addition to the astronomical map.

A new, previously undiscovered moon has been found orbiting Uranus, the seventh planet from our sun.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration spotted the celestial object through the James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope in space. Though Webb is usually tasked with capturing snapshots of space outside our system, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute studying the rings and moons of Uranus made the discovery on Feb. 2 of this year.

"This object was spotted in a series of 10 40-minute long-exposure images captured by the Near-Infrared Camera," said Maryame El Moutamid, a lead scientist on the research team's Solar System Science a

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