Puck: Uranus's Tiny Moon!

Puck is a moon, which means it's a space rock that goes around a planet. Puck is a moon of Uranus, a super-duper cold planet that's far, far away. Imagine a tiny potato floating in space – that's kind of what Puck looks like! It's not round like our Moon; it's more bumpy and uneven. It's one of the many moons that dance around Uranus.

Puck is pretty small for a moon. Its diameter is only about 162 kilometers, which is like the distance across a big city. If you could hold it, it would feel much smaller than Earth! It takes Puck about 18 hours to zip all the way around Uranus. That's faster than you can go to school and back!

Scientists think Puck is made of ice and rock, just like many other moons in our solar system. It's a dark moon, meaning it doesn't reflect much sunlight. This makes it a bit tricky to see. It’s like a dark pebble lost in the vastness of space. It doesn't have any air to breathe or water to swim in.

Puck wasn't discovered until 1985! That's not too long ago, even for grown-ups. It was found by a special telescope on a spacecraft called Voyager 2. This spacecraft flew past Uranus and took amazing pictures, showing us Puck for the very first time. Before that, nobody even knew it was there!