Thirty years after the space mission, scientists are discovering missed moon around Neptune

Science probes can blunder. Until now, scientists have a moon around Neptune was discovered that thirty years ago the attention of the American Voyager 2 is escaping. It reports the scientific journal Nature.

When the Voyager 2 in August 1989 beyond Neptune flew, put the probe a complex system of thirteen moons expose of which six had never before been noted. But thirty years later, the unmanned spacecraft one to have missed.

Scientists using data from the American-European Hubble space Telescope, a seventh ice moon around the celestial body has been discovered. It was so small and blurry that it is just outside the field of view of the Voyager fell. The moon was given the name Hippocamp. the

it is Possible they were formed by material that the space was thrown in a fierce clash that the moon Proteus, about four billion years ago, almost apart it has torn. The diameter is probably only 32 km.

Neptune is the eighth planet of our solar system and runs at 4.5 billion kilometres around our star. That is roughly thirty times further than we do.