With astral influences and layers of vocals, Enya's 'Shepherd Moons' album turned the tide and swept audiences along with a New Age classic.
37 months ago

This ring is made up of carefully herded dust and ice particles, tended by the team effort of two moons. These shepherd-moons keep a watchful eye on the ring...
111 months ago

This spectacular image shows Prometheus (at right) and Pandora (at left), with their flock of icy ring particles (the F ring) between them.
227 months ago

It was November 4, 1992, when Enya released her third studio album, Shepherd Moons. It was the artist's first full-length following the...
37 months ago

A study showing that Saturn's F ring and its shepherd satellites are natural by-products of the final stage of formation of Saturn's satellites.
111 months ago

Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft are helping to explain how Atlas, Daphnis, Epimetheus, Pan and Pandora are distinctive among Saturn's...
68 months ago

Who can say what books Enya would read, which ones she'd enjoy? Only time. But for now, I feel equipped to make a few suggestions.
25 months ago

Prometheus and Pandora, far from behaving as shepherds, actually act to stir up the motions of particles in most of the region near the F ring.
125 months ago

They reveal the delicate straw-like textures and clumps within the rings, and patterns produced by the movement of the shepherd moons, such as Daphnis.
65 months ago

Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea can form and maintain their own...
72 months ago