Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system
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Saturn officially has more moons than any planet in the solar system, overtaking Jupiter. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has announced the addition of 28 natural moons to the ringed planet, bringing the total to 117 against Jupiter’s 95.
Saturn and Jupiter, the heaviest planets in the solar system, have enough gravitational pull to pull space rocks out of their orbits around the sun.These captured moons called irregular moons, Often with bizarre and widely looping orbits, astronomers…
