2026-07-22 15:04 UTC
Unlike moons in our Solar System, this object — a gaseous body at least as massive as Jupiter — does not orbit a planet.
It circles a brown dwarf, that in turn orbits the CD-35 2722 star.
Regardless of what to call this object, this discovery may mark an important first.
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@esoastronomy@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 15:05
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 👇 3/4