44+ 4 Moons Of Jupiter Pictures. Jupiter has 53 named moons and another 26 awaiting official names. There are 79 known moons of jupiter, not counting a number of moonlets likely shed from the inner moons.
The most massive of the moons are the four galilean moons.
Jupiter's edge is fuzzy (you're looking at the tops of clouds), and models vary on exactly when transits begin and end. The most massive of them, the four galilean moons, were discovered in 1610 by galileo galilei and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither. Jupiter , a planet in our solar system , currently has 79 confirmed moons. Jupiter is called jupiter because of the roman god jupiter and he was the kng of all roman gods.
