Artist’s impression of CD-35 2722, a system with a moon-like object (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)

New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels

Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger […]

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