A pair of astronomers combing through data from the Kepler spacecraft have discovered the first exomoon. The moon is in the Kepler 1625 system approximately 8000 light years absent,in the constellation Cygnus. It orbits the gas giant Kepler 1625b, and, and unlike all the moons in our Solar System,this one is a “gas moon.” … Continue reading "First Exomoon Found! A Neptune-Sized Moon Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet"The post First Exomoon Found! A Neptune-Sized Moon Orbiting a Jupiter-Sized Planet appeared first on Universe Today.
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