Many of the satellites find relatively small in size and reach only a few kilometers wide.
Scientists from the International Astronomical Union have discovered 128 new Saturn satellites, some of them recently formed. From the moment, the total number of satellites of the sixth planet from the sun was 274, reports the New York Times.
It has been mentioned that the space rotating around the giant gas was opened in 2023 using the Canada France France Hawaii telescope in Hawaii (USA). Astronomers are outlined by a study published in the research records of the American Astronomical Society in March 2025.
Scientists have noticed areas of space near Saturn and monitor the movement of the bodies to the galaxy nearby.
As you know, gas planets in the solar system have many satellites. For example, 95 cosmic bodies, Uranus – 28 rotate around Jupiter, and Neptune – 16. According to the latest data of astronomers, the number of Saturn’s satellites is 274.
“This is the biggest new group of satellites,” said Michael Aleessandersen, co -Author of work from the Harvard -Smitzovo Center for Astrophysics.
Those who have the study opened by satellites have the right to choose a name for them.
It has been reported that many of the satellites find relatively small in size and only a few kilometers wide.
All open satellites have a small size, rotating at a large angle relative to the equatorial of the parent planet and in places in the opposite direction from other satellites.
In addition, objects in space rotate around a giant gas at a distance of about 10.5 to 29 million kilometers, which is more than other bodies near Saturn. For example, the planet’s rings move at a distance of about half a million kilometers, and the main satellite of the titanium and enzlad is up to 3.2 million kilometers.
Currently, data on new companions of Saturn is limited, as scientists are seeing them at a small light point in the telescope. Those who have set studies believe that data from Space Telescope James Webb will help better study satellites.
Astrophysicist Edward Ashton (top -scheme of study) and his colleagues believe that some of Saturn’s wrong satellites have previously fragments of other large body encounters, and others are the consequences of further destruction on the planet orbit.
Astronomers have also been able to combine new groups into groups, referring to their potential families.
One of these groups of 47 space spaces is called Mundilfari in honor of the Scandinavian myth of the myth. Those with the work -set believe that these things have been formed recently, as for the space history – about 100 million years ago. The age of this group may indicate chaotic activity in the external solar system, which is considered calm in the last 100 million years.
According to Dr. Eston, there may be thousands of satellites around Saturn, which has not yet discovered astronomers.
Remember that two years ago a team of scientists conducted a new study in which he learned that there was an unknown phenomenon in Saturn. It consists of the fact that the planet’s rings affect the upper layers of the Saturn environment.
It is also reported that the international group of astronomers in collaboration with NASA and ESA space agencies are located in the space of a new planet Gliese 12 b.
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