{"id":21817,"date":"2023-02-07T23:27:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/?p=21817"},"modified":"2023-02-08T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T09:33:01","slug":"dozen-new-moons-found-orbiting-jupiter-surpassing-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/2023\/02\/07\/dozen-new-moons-found-orbiting-jupiter-surpassing-saturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozen New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter, Surpassing Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARABNORMAL NEWS &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/jupiter\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jupiter<\/a>, our largest planet, has surpassed Saturn with the discovery of 12 new moons.<\/p>\n<p>The gas giant now has 92 known moons, the most in the solar system, second to Saturn with 83.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered by telescopes in Hawaii and Chile in 2021 and 2022, the moons have now been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Finding new moons is challenging for astronomers, given that they are small enough to evade detection and can probably only be seen using extremely powerful telescopes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason is that they are closer to Jupiter and the scattered light from the planet is tremendous,&#8221; said Dr. Scott Sheppard of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiescience.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carnegie Institution for Science<\/a>, who led the research.<\/p>\n<p>The moons far above Jupiter take more than 340 days to complete an orbit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/astronomers-find-a-dozen-more-moons-for-jupiter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Astronomers Find a Dozen More Moons for Jupiter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter, our largest planet, has surpassed Saturn with the discovery of 12 new moons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41,1430,1112,119,521,1429],"class_list":["post-21817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-astronomy","tag-dr-scott-sheppard","tag-jupiter","tag-moon","tag-planets","tag-saturn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/news-jupiter-moons.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21850,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21817\/revisions\/21850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parabnormalradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}