{"id":3927246,"date":"2026-07-30T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/neptunes-inner-moons-may-be-shattered-remains-of-ancient-icy-worlds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:02:48","slug":"neptunes-inner-moons-may-be-shattered-remains-of-ancient-icy-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/neptunes-inner-moons-may-be-shattered-remains-of-ancient-icy-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Neptune&#8217;s inner moons may be shattered remains of ancient icy worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In 1989, the Voyager 2 mission discovered six new moons orbiting Neptune, including five tiny ones that orbit just outside the planet&#8217;s main rings. Because of their small sizes and locations, these satellites have been difficult to study from Earth. Now, using NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of Caltech researchers has observed Neptune&#8217;s rings and three of those moons\u2014Larissa, Galatea and Proteus\u2014and found that their composition is unique among outer solar system bodies.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-neptune-moons-shattered-ancient-icy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1989, the Voyager 2 mission discovered six new moons orbiting Neptune, including five tiny ones that orbit just outside the planet&#8217;s main rings. Because of their small sizes and locations, these satellites have been difficult to study from Earth. Now, using NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of Caltech researchers has observed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}