A cheeky discovery.

Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a few hours.

NASA announced Tuesday that the still unnamed moon was captured by the Webb Telescope in February.

The Uranus system has moons named for characters from British writers Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. University of Idaho

At only six miles wide, the orbiter had eluded observation — even that of the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby in 1977 — due to its miniscule size, according to NASA.

The moon is so small — just over 90 football fields — that the average person could traverse it in just a few hours.

“It’s a small moon but a significant discovery,” declared Maryame El Moutamid, a lead scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, which led the te

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