Wobbling exoplanet hints at a hidden exomoon so massive it could redefine the word 'moon' altogether
That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane — so massive it could make ...
A new discovery suggests the possibility of an exomoon with an unprecedentedly large mass, thousands of times larger than any ...
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Astronomers detect alien moon so massive it might redefine what a moon is
A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests ...
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The sky today on Tuesday, January 13: Ganymede's turn to transit
Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. January 12: Io's post-opposition transit Point ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 28, 2000, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft discovered auroras on Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Galileo launched in 1989 on a ...
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The Sky This Week from January 9 to 16: Jupiter at opposition
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, January 9Mars is in conjunction with the Sun at 7 A.M. EST, invisible in our sky until mid-March. The bright moon Titan lies near its ...
Our solar system’s largest moon, Ganymede of Jupiter, has never been completely mapped — until now. Scientists led by Wheaton College’s Geoffrey Collins combined data from NASA’s Voyager 1, 2 and ...
Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...
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