Astronomers identified a second possible exomoon

Some of the same researchers who found the first purported exomoon now say that they’ve found another., the satellite has a radius about 2.6 times that of Earth, and circles a Jupiter-sized exoplanet that orbits its parent star about once every two Earth years, the team reports January 13 inTo find this nugget, the team sorted through a database of more than 4,000 exoplanets detected by NASA’s now-retired Kepler space telescope.

Each of these planets is between half and twice the size of Jupiter. They all either take more than 400 Earth days to orbit their star or have an estimated average surface temperature less than 300 kelvins , slightly higher than that of Earth. After further screening, including tossing out exoplanets that don’t have near-circular orbits , the team identified a strong candidate for an exomoon. It, like its host planet, caused detectable dimming of the parent star’s light when moving across the face of the star.

'The moon has a radius about 2.6 times that of earth.' Who are you guys kidding?

I'm glad I know that now.

Is it typo or test of knowledge ? Earth's radius is 6370 Km Approx. As moon is smaller in size than earth so does it's radius proportionately.

I'm no longer familiar with what the universe looks like. Perhaps we need a new picture, please

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The rotating universe consists of a hierarchy of rotating systems. Wonderful that we’re discovering moons, planets, stars, galaxies, clusters, black holes etc everywhere, but that’s expected. All of them are just relativistically rotating electrons and positrons.

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What if, just what if the Aliens are the one creating new planets

😂🤣😂 Interesting worthless knowledge.

You 'scientists' just love to make 💩 up, don't you? 😂

Distance of about 5700 light years is actually imaginable🤣. Space science is terribly undebatable!

That's not a moon.

Cool. Anybody knows how many planets in distant systems are known? ... ok, figured I could google that one up. They are called 'exoplanets' apparently. According to more than 4000 are known and more than 8000 other objects are under evaluation.

Maybe Endor 😅

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