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Published online 12 January 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.16
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How to spot moons far, far away
The search for life on another planet is about to be extended – to moons.
We might soon get our first glimpse of a moon orbiting a planet in another solar system.
Little effort has so far been made to find such an 'exomoon'.
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