Tiny, lumpy, and whizzing around their planet in all directions. And not just one or two of them, but an entire swarm. Welcome to the surprising new moons of Saturn.
Astronomer Edward Ashton led the team that recently discovered an astonishing 63 tiny new natural satellites orbiting around the sixth planet from the Sun. His findings pushed Saturn past Jupiter for the most moons in our solar system. No one has ever found this many moons before.
Ashton only located the new moons by breaking many of the unwritten rules about how and where to search for moons and how they should be expected to behave. He began this research while a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in Canada and now works at Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. His discoveries may
