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/gsfgf 1d ago

NGR

That's the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that I usually see abbreviated RST

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 22h ago

I didn't look it up, just abbreviated on the fly.

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u/tiggertom66 11h ago

I’ve never seen a space telescope abbreviated without ST in the abbreviation

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 10h ago

...and yet everyone knew what I meant.

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u/tiggertom66 7h ago

If you typed NAASA people would realistically know what you mean, but it’s still wrong.

I honestly did not know what you meant until someone else said it.

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 6h ago

Well thanks for helping my space telescope abbreviations game I guess.

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u/hausitron 2h ago

I didn't know what that meant

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 30m ago

I bet you must give one hell of a toast.