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Jupiter's known moons by year

Jupiter's known moons by year
Jupiter's known moons by year The number of Jovian moons has quintupled since the year 2000, when digital imaging technology started being applied to large telescopes. Discoveries leapt forward again following the advent of wide-field survey telescopes able to image portions of the sky more than 10 times larger than Earth’s moon. Data by Scott Sheppard, visualization by Jason Davis