Overview

• A team of astronomers discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing its total to 274, far surpassing Jupiter's 95 moons.
• The moons, each only a few kilometers across, are classified as irregular moons with elliptical orbits, likely formed from past collisions.
• The discovery was made using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and a 'shift and stack' technique to detect faint objects over multiple images.
• The findings suggest a major collision within Saturn's system occurred around 100 million years ago, fragmenting larger moons into smaller ones.
• The new moons have been officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union and will eventually be named after mythological figures.