Spaced out.

Pluto's two small moons that were discovered last October have been given shiny new names to replace the pedestrian S/2005 P 2 and S/2005 P 1 monikers they've carried since the Halloween announcement.

Stern's team picked the names Nix and Hydra—both figures in Greek mythology—to reflect the underworld theme used in naming objects in the dim reaches of the outer solar system. [...] They settled on Nix and Hydra because their initials could stand for New Horizons, the space probe now heading for Pluto, the solar system's last unexplored planet. [...]

Nyx is the Greek goddess of darkness and the mother of the underworld ferryman Charon, which is the name of Pluto's largest moon. Hydra was a nine-headed monster that guarded the underworld. Its nine heads make it a particularly good companion for the ninth planet, Stern says.

Originally, the astronomers proposed "Nyx" as the name for the first moon, but the IAU rejected that spelling because it had already been used to name a small asteroid.

New Horizons, currently about halfway to Jupiter, is scheduled to arrive at Pluto in July 2015.

A little closer to home, Ciclops has released some swell animated clips of moons orbiting Saturn. I found them by way of Matt McIrvin, who notes that Cassini has so far spent most of its time on the night side of Saturn, looking at the rings more or less head-on, but:

Late in July, this phase of the tour is coming to an end and Cassini is going to start looping higher and higher out of the equatorial plane over the coming year, eventually ascending to a high enough latitude that there will be pictures of Saturn suspended in its rings like an oval bullseye. The purpose is to flip the orbit around so that the ellipses point outward on the day side again, and Cassini starts encountering Titan and other moons at a new sun angle. Once that's done, in the fall of 2007, there will be some more moon flybys including a close flyby of the bizarre moon Iapetus that should fill in the remaining blank space on the map [excellent link, btw -'r]. Then, in 2008, in the last phase of the primary mission, Cassini will spiral in closer to Saturn and tilt its orbit to an even higher inclination to get spectacular pictures of the rings.

Everything after that is gravy, a.k.a extended mission, and it's not planned yet. [...] And I see that the last flyby of Enceladus in 2008 has been tweaked so that Cassini gets within 23 km of the surface. That is awesome.

How awesome? This great picture of Enceladus was snapped from a distance of 119,000 km.