Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons around Neptune, bringing the total for the distant giant planet to 11, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reported. These moons are the first to be discovered around Neptune since the NASA Voyager Ⅱ flyby in 1989, and the first discovered with a ground-based telescope since 1949,the center said in a statement.
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