Planetary-Mass Exomoon Found Circling Brown Dwarf

Jul 26, 2026 - 17:30

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Planetary-Mass Exomoon Found Circling Brown Dwarf

This illustration shows the stellar system CD-35 2722, with the newly found exomoon at the center; the star has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right). Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a gas giant around a brown dwarf in the stellar system CD-35 2722.

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