Saturn surpasses Jupiter with most number of moons: Everything we know | Technology News, The Indian Express

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with most number of moons: Everything we know | Technology News, The Indian Express

By Tech Desk |New Delhi |Updated: October 9, 2019 12:49:14 pm

Saturn surpasses Jupiter with most number of moons: Everything we know

Scientists have discovered as many as 20 new moons around Saturn, taking its tally to 82 and edging past Jupiter.

An artist’s conception of the 20 newly discovered moons orbiting Saturn. These discoveries bring the planet’s total moon count to 82, surpassing Jupiter for the most in our Solar System. (Image source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)

Over the past centuries, astronomers believed that Jupiter, the largest planet of our solar system, also has the most number of moons. And this is what many of have also learnt back in school. However, according to the latest research by a team of space scientists led by Carnegie Institution for Science’s Scott S. Sheppard, this theory is set to change. According to the findings of this research, which was announced on Monday by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, Saturn, and not Jupiter which has the most number of moons revolving around it.