{"id":390,"date":"2023-04-08T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T05:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=390"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T09:08:19","slug":"new-moons-around-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/new-moons-around-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"New Moons Around Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"a person who studies the stars and the planets in space\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">Astronomers<\/a> have <a title=\"to find something for the first time\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">discovered<\/a> 12 new moons moving around Jupiter. The <a title=\"the sun and the planets that move around it\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">solar system<\/a>&#8216;s largest planet now has a total of 92 moons. Up to the discovery, Saturn was the planet with the most known moons (83) .<\/p>\r\n<p>The discovery was made while astronomers were looking for new planets <a title=\"outside of, farther than\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">beyond<\/a> the solar system. The new moons are difficult to <a title=\"find where something is\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">locate<\/a> because they are very small &#8211; only about 1 to 3 km in <a title=\"XXX\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">diameter<\/a>. They may be the rest of larger moons that broke apart after <a title=\"crashing into\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">colliding<\/a> with other moons or <a title=\"one of the many small objects that move around the sun, but are not planets\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">asteroids<\/a>. Most of them are farther away, taking over 500 days to <a title=\"go around\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">orbit<\/a> Jupiter.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jupiter&#8217;s new moons were discovered by powerful <a title=\"instrument used to make far away objects look bigger\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">telescopes<\/a> in Chile and Hawaii. They will be given names later on. <a title=\"a person who is trained in science and works in a lab\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">Scientists<\/a> think there are even more moons <a title=\"moving around\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">revolving<\/a> around the gas giant.<\/p>\r\n<p>The European Space Agency and NASA are planning <a title=\"trip, journey\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">missions<\/a> to Jupiter in the coming year that should be able to find even more moons.<\/p>\r\n<p>Jupiter&#8217;s most famous and largest moons , Europa, Ganymede , Callisto and Io were discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in the 17th <a title=\"a hundred years\" href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">century<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-489 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg\" alt=\"Ganymede\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ganymede &#8211; Jupiter&#8217;s largest moon<\/strong><br \/><em>Image:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Moon_Ganymede_by_NOAA.jpg\">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/a>, <br \/>Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons moving around Jupiter. The solar system&#8216;s largest planet now has a total of 92 moons. Up to the discovery, Saturn was the planet with the most known moons (83) . The discovery was made while astronomers were looking for new planets beyond the solar system. 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