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Edward Ashton

Edward Ashton

Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics

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With current technology I don't think we can do much better than what has already been done for moons around Saturn.

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Saturn's moon empire: 128 new worlds in a single day

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Lead discoverer of 192 Saturn moons

On March 11, 2025, the International Astronomical Union dropped a bombshell: 128 new moons orbiting Saturn. Not over a year. Not over a decade. All at once. A team led by Edward Ashton stacked thousands of telescope images from 2019 to 2023, revealing a swarm of tiny irregular satellites—each just a few kilometers across—that had been hiding in plain sight. Saturn now has 274 confirmed moons, more than all other planets in the solar system combined.

Updated Jan 7