File:Neptune's Mini-moon (Illustration) (48451437276).jpg

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This is an artist's concept of the tiny moon Hippocamp, which was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. Only 20 miles across, it may actually be a broken-off fragment from Neptune's much larger neighboring moon Proteus (seen as a small crescent in the upper right). This is the first evidence for a moon being born from a comet collision with a much larger parent body.

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Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Olmsted (STScI)
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