Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System.
The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...
Saturn's moons were thrust into the spotlight during ... This paradoxical observation of Mimas' geological history has given rise to the "Mimas Test", which states "any theory that claims to ...
In 2023, astronomers discovered 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 145 moons and surpassing Jupiter. More recently ...
For centuries, Jupiter reigned as king of the moons. Initially, the Big Four, discovered by Galileo, and then as optics and astronomy advanced, more and more, smaller and smaller bodies, until Big J ...
Saturn has left its former rival in the dust with a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets ...
The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced ... strengthen an astronomical object’s signal and make it more clear. Initially, they spotted 62 moons and a larger number of objects that ...
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