2026-07-22 15:05 UTC
If confirmed, this could be the first ‘moon’ discovered outside our Solar System — something astronomers have been searching for years.
This animation shows how the gravitational pull of the ‘moon’ makes the brown dwarf wobble, shifting its spectrum and so enabling the detection 👇
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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 15:06
Read more in our press release: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/ Or if you prefer a video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9j_oUFddIY 4/4