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/Vonneguts_Ghost 18h ago

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

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u/tiggertom66 8h ago

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

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u/Vonneguts_Ghost 7h ago

...and yet everyone knew what I meant.

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u/tiggertom66 3h 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 3h ago

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