07-07-2023, 06:56 AM
"Why Saturn's moons have been so hard to find"
For those interested, this is a nicely written article about discovering moons around the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn and, to some extent, Uranus and Neptune) that involves observations carried out on Mauna Kea.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230...-from-view
"The new moons were located by a team led by Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. The discovery took more than two years using a telescope on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. But it came after astronomers have been peering at Saturn and its satellites for more than three and a half centuries. Humanity has even sent four spacecraft to Saturn, and still these moons escaped discovery."
For those interested, this is a nicely written article about discovering moons around the gas giants (Jupiter and Saturn and, to some extent, Uranus and Neptune) that involves observations carried out on Mauna Kea.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230...-from-view
"The new moons were located by a team led by Edward Ashton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. The discovery took more than two years using a telescope on top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. But it came after astronomers have been peering at Saturn and its satellites for more than three and a half centuries. Humanity has even sent four spacecraft to Saturn, and still these moons escaped discovery."