Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan

Date

25th Mar 1655

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Netherlands
371 Years ago

Christiaan Huygens discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan.


On March 25, 1655, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huyghens discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan. It was nearly 300 years later, in 1944, when Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper discovered one of the characteristics that makes Titan exceptional: this distant moon actually has an atmosphere.

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