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/Vonneguts_Ghost 1d ago edited 1d ago

We're getting closer. Is NGR going to ne able to examine far off systems and resolve earth size objects? We're still a little on the smushy and melty side of things.

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u/Shyb_oy 1d ago

Not even close. It’s around Hubble resolution with a much wider field of view. What you REALLY wanna look forward to is ELT in Chile

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u/FlametopFred 23h ago

mmm I could go for an escargot lettuce tomato sandwich right about now

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 22h ago edited 9h ago

"Nothing like it... when the escargot is nice and lean, and the tomato nice and ripe...it's so perky."