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The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system ... They also combined multiple images together to strengthen an astronomical object’s signal ...

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Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised discoveries from a team ...

possibly as massive as eight times Jupiter, may have passed through the solar system billions of years ago, significantly altering the orbits of its outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...