Saturn’s moons have been discovered, bringing its total to 274: more than all the other planets in the solar system combined! The Lord of the Rings never ceases to amaze us. Edward Ashton of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan, and his colleagues discovered the new moons with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, revealing dozens that had previously eluded astronomers. They took hours of images of Saturn, adjusted them to match the planet’s motion across the sky, and stacked them to reveal objects that would otherwise have been too faint to see.
