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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/