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🌕 Is this the first exomoon? It’s complicated.
Astronomers found a planetary-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf — which itself orbits a star. Is it a planet, moon, or “exosatellite”? The answer may depend on how it formed.
Read more: https://www.seti.org/news/is-this-the-first-exomoon/
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🌕 Look up on August 27!
A deep partial lunar eclipse is coming to the Bay Area, with 96% of the Moon slipping into Earth’s shadow at maximum eclipse.
For San Jose and the Bay Area:
🌕 Moonrise: 7:35 p.m.
🌑 Maximum eclipse: 9:12 p.m.
🌕 Partial eclipse ends: 10:51 p.m.#LunarEclipse #Astronomy #BayArea #SanJose #Skywatching #LookUp #SJAA #SETIInstitute