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ENCELADUSThe second nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn, the brightest of all its moons, and discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. The surface is almost pure water ice, with t
MIMASThe smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. Its most noteworthy feature is a 130-km- (80-mile-) diameter crat
TITANA moon of Saturn, the second-largest solar system moon
ONEPINNearest of ten in a lane
DOGSTARStalk a celebrity, the brightest of the lot (7)
STARPERFORMERThe brightest of heavenly bodies? (4,9)
IAPETUSThe outermost of Saturn's major regular moons, extraordinary because of its great contrast in surface brightness. This moon was discovered by Gian Domenico Cassini in 1671, it has a radius of 718 km (
CASSINIHUYGENSU.S.-European space mission to Saturn launched in 1997. After multiple flybys of the planet and its moons, a probe detached from the spacecraft and landed on Titan in 2005. Controllers sent the remain
ALGOLMultiple star considered the second-brightest of the constellation Perseus, known as the Demon Star (5)
RHEASecond-largest of the moons of Saturn, discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1672 (4)
ASCOLI- Piceno, Italian town, site of a massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War of 90 B.C. (6)
SATURNPlanet surrounded by 60 known moons and circled by a system of rings including those of "A" and "B" separated by the Cassini Division (6)
MARSHHabitat forming three per cent of the UK with other wetlands including bogs, reedbeds and fens, but home to around 10 per cent of all its species (5)
ELFOWLSSparrow-sized birds in the Strigiformes order, the lightest of all its species (3,4)
VENUSThe second nearest planet to the sun; alias morning or evening star (5)
ALPHACENTAURIBinary star that is the second nearest star to the sun
TETHYSOne of the four moons of Saturn discovered by Cassini (6)
URANUSSaturn and Neptune's neighbour - its moons include Titania and Ariel
NINEThe digits of all its multiples always add up to it
TUNAFISHAmerican Samoa's main commodity, accounting for about 90 percent of all its exports