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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Saturn first lost its title after it was announced in February that Jupiter added 12 new moons to its tally (making up a total of 95 moons), while Saturn was only known to have 83.<\/p>\n

This month, Jupiter lost its crown as the planet in our solar system with the most moons after research from multiple astronomers revealed Saturn has 62 more moons than previously known, bringing its official total to 145 moons.<\/p>\n

After tracking 63 objects orbiting Saturn, a team of researchers confirmed its first satellite in 2021, while Saturn\u2019s remaining 62 moons were confirmed this month.<\/p>\n

The exciting discovery was made by a team led by Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, who was able to find Saturn\u2019s smaller moons using a method in which a set of images are shifted at the same speed as the moon they are tracking moves -all in order to enhance that specific moon\u2019s signal.<\/p>\n

While this image system, referred to as \u201cshift and stack,\u201d has been applied to Neptune and Uranus, this is the first time the technique has been used in researching Saturn. Additionally, while some of the moons have been spotted as early as 2019, those discoveries had to go unconfirmed until their orbit was tracked for several years.<\/p>\n

The latest developments suggest more moons for Jupiter may be found; however, the recent finding of Saturn\u2019s moons is so dramatic, it essentially locks in Saturn\u2019s status as the planet in our solar system with the highest number of moons.<\/p>\n

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