First ‘exomoon’ may have just been spotted by the Kepler Space Telescope

[Guest Mike Wehner]

Astronomers around the world continue to spot new planets outside of our Solar System on a regular basis, and some of those worlds look like they just might be good candidates for life, but spotting moons that aren't in our immediate neighborhood is a far more difficult challenge. Now, researchers led by David Kipping of Columbia University think they might be the first to actually confirm the presence of a moon in a distant planetary system — an "exomoon" — and it's an extremely exciting discovery.

 

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