Two New Moons for Jupiter
WWW.UNIVERSETODAY.COM - Above are the the discovery images for one of Jupiter's newest moons S/2011 J2. This object is faint and doesn't have much visual information, but the moon was discovered using the optical telescope Magellan on Sept. 27, 2011. You can see the motion of the satellite over 40 minutes between the two exposures while the background stars and galaxies do not move. Jupiter is about 0.5 degrees away…
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