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New James Webb Space Telescope observations and dynamical simulations published in Science Advances suggest that Neptune's moon Nereid is not a captured Kuiper Belt Object, as long assumed, but a primordial satellite that survived the gravitational chaos unleashed when Triton was captured over four billion years ago. The finding, led by Caltech researchers, could reshape understanding of how moon systems form and evolve around ice giant planets.