Saturn has 128 more moons

It’s official: The number of moons orbiting Saturn has nearly doubled. On March 11, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) recognized 128 additional moons. This brings Saturn’s total moon count to 274, which is twice as many as all other planets in the solar system combined. Jupiter is second with 95. A moon is an object that orbits a planet but is not a star. An international team of scientists discovered Saturn’s new moons in 2023 using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii. The new moons are a few miles across. That’s tiny compared to Earth’s moon, which is 2,159 miles across. Because of their size, scientists think the newly identified Saturn moons are small pieces that broke away from larger moons during powerful collisions about 100 million years ago.…

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