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 ...
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Saturn surpasses Jupiter with 128 newly discovered moons, becoming the planet with the most moons in our solar system.
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Astronomers find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery
They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago ... around Saturn to give it double the number of all the other planets combined. The newly discovered moons are all small.
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Like all of the planets of our Solar System ... satellites because they were discovered in 1610 by the astronomer Galileo Galilei. Each of these moons is interesting in and of itself, but here ...