Astronomers may have found a moon orbiting a rogue planet with no star

By Leah Crane

Rogue planets could beryllium the cleanable spots to find an orbiting exomoon

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Astronomers whitethorn person recovered a satellite orbiting a distant rogue planet. While the satellite doesn’t orbit a star, its satellite whitethorn beryllium adjacent to the size of Earth and lukewarm capable to person liquid h2o connected its surface, a diagnostic indispensable for beingness arsenic we cognize it.

Mary Anne Limbach astatine Texas A&M University and her colleagues performed a bid of calculations to effort to find whether rogue planets would beryllium bully places to look for moons beyond our star system, called …

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