Suspected first exomoon comes into tantalizing focus

Hubble telescope spots faint changes in the light from a star that could signal the presence of a moon around a distant planet.

Alexandra Witze

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Astronomers have spotted what could be the first known moon to orbit an exoplanet.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06918-9

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