December 23, 2024

On This Day in Space! Sept. 17, 1789: Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ moon Mimas discovered

(Image credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ Space Science Institute) Anyway, Herschel was a man who liked to build telescopes and discover things, like the world Uranus, tiny moons around Jupiter and Saturn, and other stuff out there in area. It is the tiniest known round body in area that is held together by self-gravitation. On This Day in Space Archive!Still not enough area?