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With 20 new moons, Saturn now has the most of any solar system planet

The discovery brings the planet’s total to 82. The previous record-holder, Jupiter, has 79

Saturn's moons

Saturn now has the most known moons of any planet in the solar system: 82. In 2011, the Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn with five of its moons visible.

Space Science Institute, JPL-Caltech/NASA

By Sofie Bates

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