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Concepto artístico del hipocampo lunar de Neptuno
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 e...
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- Jan 1, 2019
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- Hubble Space Telescope
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- hubblesite-images-2019-04-4313-image
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.
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NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI)Más imágenes de este periodo
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