First Exo-Planet Moon Found?
...so....I'm sure the Lord God that spoke into existence the planets and our solar system moons spoke others into existence too since He made other planets also.
...so....I'm sure the Lord God that spoke into existence the planets and our solar system moons spoke others into existence too since He made other planets also.
"In a new study, astronomers detail observations of what could be the first known exosatellite - a natural object orbiting a world beyond our solar system in the same way our Moon orbits Earth. However, the massive, gaseous body they observed bears little resemblance to the Moon we know.
The study, published July 22 in Nature, describes a stellar system some 73 light-years from Earth that exhibits what they call a three-tiered hierarchy - in other words, an object orbiting another object that orbits its host star. Our own solar system also has three tiers: The Moon orbits Earth, which orbits the Sun.
"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,” Hoy said in an ESO press release. “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.” msn
"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,” Hoy said in an ESO press release. “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.” msn
