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Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger
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Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger

This is an artist's concept of the tiny moon Hippocamp that was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. Only 20 miles across, it may actually be a broken-off fragment from a much larger neighboring moon, Proteus, seen as a crescent in the background. This is the first evidence for a moon being an offshoot from a comet collision with a much larger parent body. Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Olmsted (STScI)

Date
2019-02-20
Photographer / author
Space Telescope Science Institut
Collection
GSFC
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
illustration (NASA artwork)

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"Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger" (2019-02-20). NASA/GSFC/Space Telescope Science Institut. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/stsci-h-p1904a-m-2000x1143

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