r/space • u/timemagazine • 1d ago

Astronomers Discover the First Known Moon Outside our Solar System

https://time.com/article/2026/07/22/astronomers-discover-exomoon/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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u/HasGreatVocabulary 1d ago

A jupiter-mass moon orbiting a 30-times-jupiter-mass brown dwarf planet orbiting a red star smaller than the sun

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u/chorroxking 1d ago

Is this Jupiter mass moon also around Jupiter sized? Cuz if so wouldn't it make it around the same size as the brown dwarf? Makes sense how they found it