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    Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble may have Broken from Larger Moon

    February 22, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    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)

    Astronomers call it “the moon that shouldn’t be there.” After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered with Hubble in 2013.

    The tiny moon, named Hippocamp, is unusually close to a much larger Neptunian moon called Proteus...

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