October 4, 2018

• Scientists think they’ve found the first moon outside our solar system

  An illustration of the exoplanet Kepler 1625b with its large hypothesized moon. (Dan Durda)

  In flickering light of a distant sun, scientists may have discovered the first moon outside our solar system.

  Writing in the journal Science Advances, two Columbia University astronomers using the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes say they’ve found signs of a large gassy “exomoon” orbiting an even larger exoplanet around a star 8,000 light-years away.

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  Sarah Kaplan October 3 at 2:00 PM.

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