{"id":581344,"date":"2026-08-11T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581344\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:22:25","slug":"apod-2026-august-11-six-moons-of-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581344\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 August 11 &#8211; Six Moons of Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p-md margin-0 media-detail-hero__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moons_of_Saturn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How many moons does Saturn have?<\/a> While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June 2026 the ringed gas giant had 293 confirmed moons. That&#8217;s easily more <a href=\"http:\/\/ssd.jpl.nasa.gov\/?sat_discovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">than any other planet<\/a> of the Solar System, including ruling gas giant Jupiter with a mere 115 confirmed moons. Most of Saturn&#8217;s known moons are small, irregular satellites. Many are only few kilometers to a fraction of a kilometer across and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moons_of_Saturn#Irregular_moons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grouped in<\/a> tilted outer orbits. Six of its largest satellites can be seen here, though, in this sharp telescopic <a href=\"https:\/\/app.astrobin.com\/i\/ztmhhp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturnian family portrait<\/a> taken on August 5. Larger than Earth&#8217;s Moon and even slightly larger than inner planet Mercury, <a href=\"http:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/profile.cfm?Object=Sat_Titan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Titan<\/a>, with a diameter of 5,150 kilometers, is at lower right. You can also spot icy major moons <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap100511.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mimas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap091208.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tethys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap120208.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enceladus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap070801.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dione<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap080513.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rhea<\/a> in the frame. Saturn&#8217;s first known natural satellite, Titan was <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/fap\/ap050325.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discovered in 1655<\/a> by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens. During the space age Voyager and <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/cassini\/science\/moons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cassini discoveries<\/a> have added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2025PSJ.....6..283A\/abstract\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">swelling ranks<\/a> of Saturnian moons.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Stream: <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/eclipses\/future-eclipses\/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 12 Total Solar Eclipse<\/a>.<br \/>Tomorrow&#8217;s picture: pixels in space<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: How many moons does Saturn have? While the total will likely continue to grow, as of June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[257340,85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-581344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}