Minor Planet Center Confirms 117 Moons for Saturn

May 11, 2023 by Brian Wang

The Minor Planet Center has confirmed the addition of 28 newly discovered moons of Saturn. Saturn now has 117 moons and Jupiter has 95. Corey Powell notes that if we start counting all the chunks in the rings, the number could go into the thousands…or the trillions. Maybe it’s time for a formal definition of …

Second Collision of Neutron Stars Detected

January 6, 2020 by Brian Wang

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo collaborations have detected the collision of the second pair of neutron stars. This is the first major event of LIGO detector’s third observing run. This is the second observing run to be conducted with the company of the Virgo detector in Italy. On April 25, 2019, the …