New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels
- Press Release 22 July 2026 Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system.
- Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it.
- Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger than a planet, that orbits the CD-35 2722 star.
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- Press Release 22 July 2026 Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system.
- Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it.
- Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger than a planet, that orbits the CD-35 2722 star.
Sources: Eso