Jupiter had 67 moons until astronomers accidentally discovered two more making it 69 now.

The moons are basically celestial bodies orbiting a planet. The highly developed telescopes spotted the two tiny moons revolving around Jupiter. The discovery was accidental as astronomers were searching for some bodies outside the solar system when they spotted these tiny moons around Jupiter.

The discovery was made by researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC with the help of the Magellan-Baade reflector at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. They have been referred to as moonlets since they are very tiny in size measuring 1 mile across. They haven’t been named yet but are referred to as S/2016 J 1 and S/2017 J 1 – where S stands for Satellite, and J stands for Jupiter.

In correspondence with the Sky and Telescope, the leader of the team Dr. Scott Sheppard said that his team was continuing the survey finding bodies outside the solar system that includes looking Planet X, while Jupiter was just spotted in the area they were surveying in 2016 and 2017.

Astronomers claim that the tiny moons might have drifted towards Jupiter as they might have gone close to the gravitational pull of the planet.