Planet Saturn has today an announcement regarding a very important discovery that was made by researchers, and it comes as a very big surprise for many of them. You probably already know that near the planet Saturn there is a moon called Titan, and this is one of the most important in the view of the researchers, they intend to explore it to see if there is any possibility of discovering traces of life.
Planet Saturn is getting further and further away from the moon Titan, or better said, the moon is running away from the planet at a speed that is 100 times higher than the researchers thought until now. According to their findings, the moon Titan was formed much closer to the planet Saturn than it is at the moment, and in the course of 4.5 billion years it moved away to 1.2 million kilometers, or almost 4 times the distance between the Earth and our moon.
Planet Saturn: The AMAZING Discovery Announced by Astronomers
Planet Saturn at some point it will no longer have that moon in its orbit, but considering that this process is still quite slow, even if it is 100 times faster than thought, this will not happen soon. According to research, the moon Titan would move away from the planet Saturn at a distance of 11 centimeters annually, 3 times greater than the distance at which our moon moves away from the Earth, so although it is running away, it is not doing so at a very high speed now.
"Now, decades of measurements and calculations have revealed that Titan's orbit around Saturn is expanding – that is, the moon is getting further and further away from the planet – at a rate about 100 times faster than expected. The research suggests that Titan was born much closer to Saturn and migrated to its current distance of 1,2 million kilometers (about 746.000 miles) over 4,5 billion years.”
Planet Saturn until recently, a distance of the moon Titan was calculated that would occur at a distance of only 0.1 centimeters annually, so we are talking about a very big difference, but only in percentage. The reality is that the moon Titan will not disappear very soon from the planet Saturn, but only somewhere in a few billion years, that is if both cosmic bodies will still exist by then, and this is because anything can happen in such a long period .
Planet Saturn it still has a few moons orbiting it, but for now researchers have no information about the rate at which they are moving away from the planet, only estimates without serious research behind it.
