NASA Hubble telescope found a new moon on Neptune by Astronomer Mark Showalter. The new moon name is S/2004 N1. New moon is orbiting between Larissa and Proteus. It orbits Neptune's in 23 hours.
The new moon is a 14th moon orbiting to the planet. NASA announced officially on Monday. New moon estimated to be 20km in diameter, the moon distance from Neptune is 65,400 miles(1,05,251 kilometers). Astronomer Mark Showalter was researching in SETI institute in mountain view, Calitornia and he was searching on Hubble telescope images and Neptune's ring fragment circles.
Already Neptune's had many moons. Neptune's had largest moon. Largest moon name was Triton. Triton was discovered in 1846 and Neptune's second largest moon was Proteus. It was found by NASA's Voyager2 spacecraft and It found another five small moons, They are Naiad, Thalassa, Despina, Galatea and Larissa.
Neptune's third largest moon was Nereid. It was found in 1949.
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