Galileo Would Be Stunned: Jupiter Now Has 79 Moons

An illustration showing how the orbits of the newly discovered moons (bold) fit into the known orbital groupings of the Jovian moons (not bold). The "oddball" with the proposed name Valetudo orbits in the prograde, but crosses the orbits of the planet

Astronomers have found 12 more moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. These moons are all small — just 5 kilometers or less across — and one of them behaves very strangely.

(Image credit: Image by Roberto Molar Candanosa, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science)