fomalhaut

And these of your moons too—the dozens we’ve found, the ones we haven’t however detected, and these that may possibly be lengthy gone, lost just before any one was about to wonder. The researchers say the moon’s demise was mostly Titan’s fault. The big moon jostled the smaller a single, placing the object on a really elongated track about Saturn. The new orbit was “so elliptical that the moon has a close encounter with Saturn, and Saturn then rips it apart,” Jack Wisdom, a planetary scientist at MIT who led the most recent study, told me. The group has named...