Comments on: Scientists: Saturn’s magnetic field is warped https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-saturns-magnetic-field-is-warped/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-saturns-magnetic-field-is-warped/#comment-1630372 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:53:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=122795#comment-1630372 I don’t know tha—oui!

Now, might that lopsidedness be useful to a Starwisp?

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-saturns-magnetic-field-is-warped/#comment-1630369 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:37:38 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=122795#comment-1630369 African, or European, swallow?

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-saturns-magnetic-field-is-warped/#comment-1630347 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:01:03 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=122795#comment-1630347 Interesting. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Saturn’s multiple platoons of moons have a lot to do with this. What is the count now – 275 or something like that? I’m beginning to think the astronomers should ape the economists with their National Debt Meter and put up comparable “odometers” for the counts of Jovian and Saturnian moons. The question of “How many moons do Jupiter and Saturn have?” has already become answerable only by first inquiring of the questioner, “As of what time today did you want to know?” Heckuva change from the days of my long-fled youth when Jupiter had 12 moons and Saturn had 9 – supposedly.

This last observation, by the way, should emphatically not be taken as a complaint. I like living in times when what we think we know about the Solar System – and the Universe in general – keeps changing faster than I can really keep up. Astronomers need to do more time discovering and less time whinging about Starlink et al.

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