The second largest planet in the solar system Saturn, had recently lost the title of the planet with the most moons in the solar system. The title had passed to Jupiter with 12 new moons discovered in recent months. But the table has changed again.

Jupiter, which was the leader in the number of satellites with a total of 92 satellites, again lost the lead to Saturn. from the University of British Columbia Scientists have announced the discovery of 62 new satellites orbiting Saturn.

How were new moons discovered?

• The course of four of the newly discovered moons around Saturn.

The new moons were discovered by the team led by Edward Ashton using a technique not previously used on Saturn. scientists,”move and stackHe chose a path to be observed with the ‘technique’ and aligned all the photographs obtained during the observation on this path.

This alignment technique, applied to many paths, created new objects that had not orbited the planet before, namely satellites. This technique has also been used so far to study the moons of Neptune and Uranus.

The images used in the technique are between the years 2019-2021. Telescope Canada-France-Hawaii These were the pictures he took. As a result of the images covering the three-hour period and aligned with the road, objects as small as 2.5 kilometers in diameter were also observed.

The total number of satellites Saturn has with its 62 new moons to 145 reaches.