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Astronomers discover first exomoon-like object outside our solar system

short by Daisy Mowke / on Tuesday, 18 August, 2026
Astronomers may have identified the first exomoon-like object in CD-35 2722 system, about 70-73 light-years away. At its centre is a relatively small star, CD-35 2722 A. Orbiting that star is a brown dwarf. Now researchers have found that another object is orbiting that brown dwarf. The suspected Moon is at least around three-quarters the mass of Jupiter.
read more at Nature