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New ‘exomoon’ detection challenges cosmic labels
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. If confirmed, this could be the first ‘moon’ discovered outside our Solar System.
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space.com
Astronomers may have discovered the 1st moon outside of our solar system — or is it something weirder?
"This system is somewhat hard to define using solar-system-based words like 'planet' and 'moon.'"
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scientificamerican.com
A huge cosmic object could force astronomers to rethink what a moon is
The almost Jupiter-sized object is orbiting a brown dwarf, which, in turn, is circling around a small star
