CLEVELAND, Ohio — The outer reaches of our solar system just got a little more crowded, with astronomers spotting a previously unseen moon circling Uranus.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting the Ice Giant, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29.

The moon, which appears to be just six miles wide, was spotted by the telescope’s near-infrared camera during observations in February. NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday.

“It’s a small moon but a significant discovery, which is something that even NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft didn’t see during its flyby nearly 40 years ago,” Maryame El Moutamid, a lead scientist in SwRI’s Solar System Science and Exploration Division based in

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