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.
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A Series of Cosmic Collisions Gave Saturn 128 'New' MoonsThe smashups are thought to have occurred at least 100 million years ago, but the moons they created are new to astronomers.
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Understanding the Illusion That Makes the Moon Appear Bigger Than It IsThe moon illusion is a scientific term used to describe what happens when when the moon appears bigger sometimes, and smaller ...
The moon is not capable of producing its own light, so what we see from Earth is a reflection of the sun's light shining on ...
Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA) Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky world, discovered ...
If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's second-largest moon has more impact craters on its surface than any other ...
A huge haul of 128 newfound satellites might be a hint of past collisions in the planet’s orbit, or something else.
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