Uranus’ new moon and suspicion of Planet Y.

   Uranus’ new moon and suspicion of Planet Y. 

“James Webb has revealed Uranus’ smallest moon yet, a six-mile-wide world hidden near its inner rings. This discovery pushes the planet’s moon count to 29 and shows how Webb can uncover secrets Voyager 2 never saw. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. El Moutamid (SwRI), M. Hedman (University of Idaho)” (ScitechDaily, Uranus Has a Tiny New Moon and It’s Only Six Miles Wide)

JWST found a new moon called S/2025 U 1 near Uranus. Did the Uranus planet capture its tiny, newfound moon after the Voyager 2 flyby in 1986? The width of that moon is about 6 miles. And it is hidden in Uranus' inner rings. 

Researchers noticed the new moon that orbits Uranus. That tiny moon is interesting. Because Earth-based instruments found it. That new Uranus moon is not a very big object.  But it's remarkable, and the interesting thing. But I think that researchers should have found that moon before. So, could that small moon have made a transit movement to orbit the Uranus planet in the near past? That means something pulled that moon out from the Kuiper Belt.

In this hypothesis, that is the new moon for that gas giant. Something in the Kuiper Belt pushed that thing out from its trajectory. That new moon called S/2025 U 1 is the new moon for the Uranus moon family. And that tiny moon, which is only six miles wide, orbits near that planet. The Voyager spacecraft should have found that tiny moon during its flyby in 1986. So that supports the model that Uranus captured that moon after the Voyager flyby.

“A new SwRI-led JWST survey discovered S/2025 U 1 (approximate location indicated in yellow), a tiny moon orbiting Uranus between the satellites Bianca and Ophelia. If it has an albedo comparable to other nearby moons, this object is probably around six miles in diameter, by far the smallest moon in the Uranus system to date. The solid ellipses indicate rings, while the dotted lines show the orbits of many of the inner moons. Credit: Public Domain” (SwRI), M. Hedman (University of Idaho)” (ScitechDaily, Uranus Has a Tiny New Moon and It’s Only Six Miles Wide)

Forget planet X, there might be a planet Y in the Kuiper Belt. 

Above: Why is there no dust on the white snow area on Pluto? That tells us that the white snow area is born recently. Or something pulls particles out from that. 

Some people believe that there is a planet X, or the ninth planet, somewhere, outside Pluto’s orbit. Planet 9 is a very well-known theory. There is a suggestion that Planet 9 is about three to seven times as massive as Earth. And that orbits the sun at the edge of the solar system’s gravitational pool. There can be something smaller, an Earth-size icy world hiding in the Kuiper Belt. Or outside it. Planet Y is not such a well-known theory. Than the Planet 9. 

The white area on Pluto’s surface can be a cryovolcano or a result of the recent cryovolcanism-type seismic effect. That thing can form because of the Charon-moon gravity. But there is another possibility. Something far stronger than the gravity effect can cause tidal waves that activate the cryovolcanism. The thing. What makes that white area interesting is that. There seems to be no dust in that area. That means it formed quite recently. Pluto is far lighter than Earth. And that means Charon’s tidal forces are far stronger on that dwarf planet’s surface than they would be on Earth. 

"Three years after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gave humankind our first close-up views of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, scientists are still revealing the wonders of these incredible worlds in the outer solar system. Marking the anniversary of New Horizons' historic flight through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, mission scientists released the highest-resolution color images of Pluto and Charon. These natural-color images result from refined calibration of data gathered by New Horizons' color Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC). (Wikipedia, Charon)

The processing creates images that would approximate the colors that the human eye would perceive, bringing them closer to “true color” than the images released near the encounter. This image was taken on July 14, 2015, from a range of 46,091 miles (74,176 kilometers). This single color MVIC scan includes no data from other New Horizons imagers or instruments added. The striking features on Charon are clearly visible, including the reddish north-polar region known as Mordor Macula." (Wikipedia, Charon)

Pluto has five known moons, and that makes the new Uranus moon very interesting. But could those moons common gravity effect be strong enough? To hover those particles out from Pluto's surface? Charon itself is grey, and it can be covered by cosmic dust. But was that moon once in the middle of the cosmic dust flow? And why do those particles not reach Pluto?

The problem is: why is there no visible cryovolcanism or cyoseismic effect in the images? Which New Horizons tool during its flyby? If that cryovolcanic effect happened only once. That would cause interesting thoughts. 

Researchers are finding tips that the large, maybe, Earth-mass planet can hide in the Kuiper Belt. That planet can be more interesting than Planet 9. Planet Y can give some answers to the Early solar system formation. But researchers need more evidence. To confirm the existence of this icy Earth. Maybe the Vera Rubin Observatory can give an answer for that question.  The researchers can use the accumulation of the dust and gas around hiding objects that could hide at the edge of the solar system. 

The problem is that those objects are very cold. And if they used their internal thermal source, those big planets can turn invisible to the IR sensors. But their gravitational effect can disturb their moons. Big and heavy objects capture smaller objects around them. And maybe the tidal forces can form the cyovolcanism in those small objects. The Kuiper Belt is a very stable environment. If there are big planets, their trajectories can be so far away from the Sun and other planets that they can escape from our solar system. 

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/08/planet-y-haunting-space-beyond-neptune/

https://www.earth.com/news/planet-y-signs-of-a-world-hiding-in-our-solar-system/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493480-there-might-be-a-planet-y-hiding-in-the-outer-solar-system/

https://scitechdaily.com/uranus-has-a-tiny-new-moon-and-its-only-six-miles-wide/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

Water crystallization in low gravity and temperature can open new ways to model water.

"The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about water, planets, and life itself. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com

Scientists have uncovered a hidden structure inside the Universe’s most common ice—found on comets, moons, and interstellar dust—challenging decades of belief." (ScitechDaily, Tiny Crystals Hidden in Cosmic Ice Could Rewrite What We Know About Water and Life)

The new observations about the water crystallization can open new models for water and life in the universe. When water crystallizes at a very low temperature and under weak gravity it can form microcrystals. Those microcrystals are something that doesn’t form on Earth. The microcrystals can form a structure alone or with some liquid gas that makes it look like liquid. If there is liquid nitrogen or helium between those microcrystal bites that thing can cause a situation where those crystals can form the “icy quicksand”. 

That means those crystal ice bites behave like sand in quicksand and the liquid gas acts like water in quicksand. There is a possibility that the extremely small nanocrystals could form the liquid-looking structure on icy planets. Those new observations about water behavior open the road to making models about the lifeforms. Or, sharper saying the DNA, or mRNA controlled icy crystals can exist on some distant worlds. In those ultra-cold conditions, the DNA or RNA can make those crystals act like cells act in our planet. 

The image of Pluto from the New Horizons probe. The white structure near the pole seems to be some kind of geyser or “icy volcano”. That means Pluto's low gravity along with the Kharon moons' gravity effect and tidal forces can keep water from moving on that strange world. If there is liquid water on that dwarf planet. 

“In this image of Pluto’s surface, the red luminance corresponds to the infrared data acquired by the Ralph/MVIC instrument carried by New Horizons. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/ZLDoyle” (ScitechDaily, New Horizons Reveals Dunes Made of Tiny Grains of Solid Methane on Pluto)

That doesn’t mean. The undersurface ocean must cover the entire planet. There can be small “lakes” on that dwarf planet. Maybe most of the liquid is methane, nitrogen, and other gases. Those lakes that can hold water can be below the white cap near Pluto’s pole. 

The theory about quantum water is also interesting. 

On distant planets, water is at the minimum energy level. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms are in their maximum size. And those atoms form the Bose-Einstein condensate. There is a possibility that the weak gravity along with other effects can turn those water molecules straight and make them spin very fast. In that case, the water molecules that are very low can be unable to make bonds with the other water molecules. That means in the low temperature and low gravity it is possible that the water remains in a form that looks like liquid. 

This kind of liquid water is nothing that we see on Earth. This kind of phenomenon can be possible only in a low-pressure, lowest possible temperature, that is near 0K. And the third thing is the ultra-low gravity field. The low gravity field can keep water liquid far below zero. The thing that keeps water in liquid form is the whirls that move the water. 

If we think of dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris and their moons, their gravity is very low. And the other thing is that those objects are very thin. The third thing is that the gravitational effect of their moons like Kharon is stronger than on Earth. That can cause conditions where the whirls can keep the water liquid even in those extremely low temperatures. Tidal forces of those moons are more powerful because the dwarf planet's gravity is not very strong. 

https://scitechdaily.com/new-horizons-reveals-dunes-made-of-tiny-grains-of-solid-methane-on-pluto/

https://scitechdaily.com/tiny-crystals-hidden-in-cosmic-ice-could-rewrite-what-we-know-about-water-and-life/