Astronomers Spot Potential Exomoon the Size of Neptune - ExtremeTech

A team working with data from the dearly departed Kepler space telescope has reported a possible moon orbiting an exoplanet some 5,000 light years away. It falls somewhere between the size of Earth and that of the gas giant Neptune. If confirmed, it could be …
In the last few decades, astronomers have slowly but surely added to the number of known exoplanets. Even the largest planets can be hard to spot, though, and moons are even smaller. Well, usually. A… [+2366 chars] Read More