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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The U.S. space agency has announced the discovery of Neptune's 14th moon. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the moon as a white dot in photos of the planet on the outskirts of our solar system.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The U.S. space agency has announced the discovery of Neptune’s 14th moon. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the moon as a white dot in photos of the planet on the outskirts of our solar system.

The new moon — Neptune’s tiniest at just 19.3 kilometres across — is designated S/2004 N 1. The SETI Institute’s Mark Showalter made the discovery.

— The Associated Press

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The new moon, Neptune�s tiniest, is designated S/2004 N 1. It�s 100 million times fainter than the faintest star visible with the naked eye.
CP NASA / The Associated Press The new moon, Neptune�s tiniest, is designated S/2004 N 1. It�s 100 million times fainter than the faintest star visible with the naked eye.
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