Astronomers said in February that Jupiter had the most moons with 92, but now Saturn is stealing the title back.
The announcement is the latest in the back-and-forth between Jupiter and Saturn, two gas giants each with a plethora of moons. A research group led by Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, recently discovered 62 more moons orbiting Saturn. Ashton’s team used a technique known as “” to find any small Saturnian moons that might have eluded astronomers previously.
, “but with about 100 different games on the same page and you don’t know which dot belongs to which puzzle.” Ashton and his colleagues used data taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope located atop Mauna Kea in Hawsequential images from the telescope to find moving pointsin that they were moons and not rogue objects, like asteroids, for example. By viewing the data
in three-hour chunks, the team was able to identify moons of Saturn that were as small as 1.5 miles wide.
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