Jupiter briefly stole the limelight in February when new research revealed the planet had so many more moons than once thought,tied up sex videos it was the new solar system leader.
But Saturn is back, baby.
A group of astronomers has announced the discovery of 62 more moons orbiting the sixth planet from the sun, bringing its total natural satellites up to 145. When confirmed by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, the new tally should make Saturn the first planet in space known to have over 100 moons.
This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.
Edward Ashton, who started the study at the University of British Columbia, used a detection technique that involves stacking photos to capture more details in a single frame. The process helps uncover fainter and smaller cosmic objects. Astronomers have used this method to hunt for moons around Neptune and Uranus, but not for Saturn until now, according to the university. Researchers from other institutions collaborated on the project.
"Tracking these moons makes me recall playing the kid's game Dot-to-Dot,” said Ashton, now a researcher at Taiwan's Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in a statement. “But with about 100 different games on the same page and you don't know which dot belongs to which puzzle."
The Minor Planet Center, which catalogs moon designations, has published 42 of the new Saturnian moons over the past week or more. It's working to process and confirm the others over the coming week, said Matthew Payne, the center's director, in an email to Mashable on Friday, May 12.
Assuming all candidates from the study receive their designations, that would mean Saturn's moons way outnumber those of other planets in the solar system.
Saturn: 145.
Jupiter: 95. (Apparently, its own tally has ticked up three more moons since the February announcement that it had become the new record holder, according to a NASA list.)
"Tracking these moons makes me recall playing the kid's game Dot-to-Dot. But with about 100 different games on the same page and you don't know which dot belongs to which puzzle."
Want more scienceand tech news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newslettertoday.
When the Saturn research group took sequential images of a moon as it moved through space, they were able to collect more data to strengthen the moon's signal. That allowed the team, which used the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii for their observations, to find moons as small as about 1.5 miles wide.
The search began in 2019 when Ashton and collaborator Matthew Beaudoin were students. The objects were tracked for two more years to ensure they weren't just asteroids zipping close to the planet. They and their team also used previous detections that weren't tracked long enough at the time to establish moon orbits.
The researchers say many of the new moons are likely remnants of collisions that shattered a bigger moon or moons into pieces. All of the newly found ones are considered "irregular," the researchers said, meaning they have large, tipped, oval-shaped orbits. These moons also tend to cluster based on their tilted orbits.
"As one pushes to the limit of modern telescopes," said Gladman, a UBC astronomy professor and study collaborator, in a statement, "we are finding increasing evidence that a moderate-sized moon orbiting backwards around Saturn was blown apart something like 100 million years ago."
The unicorns in 'Death of a Unicorn' are total 'movie magic'Temporary Autonomous Taco ZonesNintendo confirms liveAmazon Spring Sale 2025: Best Samsung Q60D TV dealNYT Connections Sports Edition hints and answers for March 29: Tips to solve Connections #187Temporary Autonomous Taco ZonesOpenAI responds to criticism of ChatGPT's Studio GhibliCommunicator BreakdownAmazon Big Spring Sale 2025: Best Levoit cordless vacuum dealMotoGP 2025 livestream: Watch USA Grand Prix for free On Mars, NASA detects fresh new impact craters from space rocks Tropical Storm Ian delays NASA's Artemis I launch for third time Yes, the White house social media guy broke the law These photos of Emma Watson's doppelg?nger will blow your mind Sen. Kamala Harris keeps getting manterrupted, and the internet can't help but sigh Trolls are posting photos of fake missing people from London tower fire CNN drops personality who called Trump a 'piece of sh*t' on Twitter Webb space telescope's new Neptune images reveal ghostly, stunning rings Donald Trump randomly crashes couple's wedding, poses for photos Finally, Uber exec who wanted to stalk female journalists is fired
0.1615s , 14243.234375 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【tied up sex videos】Enter to watch online.Saturn once again reigns supreme with most moons,