Image courtesy of Helena Valenzuela Widerström.
Joel Kontinen
Astronomers say they have spotted signs of what may be an enormous exomoon
orbiting a planet more than 5000 light years away.
If it is real, it could be the first exomoon we have found, but the detection
isn’t conclusive.
This exomoon may be orbiting a planet called Kepler-1708b.
David Kipping and his colleagues found an exomoon orbiting a planet known as a super-Jupiter.
Some astronomers, like Rene Heller, are not so sure the finding is an exomoon. There are many things in the universe that baffle a human mind.
Source:
Crane, Leah. 2022. Astronomers may have found a huge moon around a Jupiter-like exoplanet. New Scientist 13 January
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