235 Years Ago: Herschel Discovers Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

On Aug. 29, 1789, German-born British astronomer William Herschel observed a tiny bright dot orbiting around Saturn. His son later named the object Enceladus. Because of its distance from Earth and proximity to bright Saturn, for the next two centuries little remained known about Enceladus other than its size, orbital parameters, and that it held 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/histo...
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