Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...
You thought Saturn's 146 moons were impressive? Think again. The ringed planet's moon count has nearly doubled with the ...
Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team of astronomers led by Edward Ashton at the Academia ...
[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the ...
The paper is titled "MEMS Huygens Clock Based on Synchronized Micromechanical Resonators." The clock, which utilizes the synchronization principle discovered by Christiaan Huygens, consists of two ...
It was only in 1655, thanks to Christiaan Huygens, that the detached rings were identified. The last time Saturn's rings went edge-on was in 2009, and they are expected to align precisely on March ...
Saturn’s first known moon, Titan, was discovered by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens 45 years later. open image in gallery Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto ...