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New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels
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cm0002 europe.pub cm0002@europe.pub
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supersquirrel sopuli.xyz supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-12-09
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wE lIkE THe x.o. MoOn

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wait a minute that sounds like the shapeshifters homeworld!

get Sisko now!

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anthropomorphized lemmy.world anthropomorphized@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
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wE lIkE THe x.o. MoOn ... wait a minute that sounds like the shapeshifters homeworld! get Sisko now!

First we need an orb. Didn't he find one in the dessert? There's gotta be one around here somewhere

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sbeak sopuli.xyz sbeak@sopuli.xyz
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The new object, which the team call an exosatellite, is at least as massive as Jupiter while the brown dwarf has more than 30 times the mass of Jupiter

“The satellite we report is a giant gaseous body orbiting a highly massive companion, itself several times the mass of Jupiter.”

Oh wow, that's a massive "moon"!

"The exosatellite is clearly massive enough to be a planet, but it does not orbit a star, though it orbits an object that orbits a star,"

"Being the third wheel in this system makes us want to call it a moon, even if it is nothing like the small, rocky moons we have in our system."

Jupiter-like object revolving around a brown dwarf, which itself is going around a proper star.

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