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Astronomers detect moon outside solar system for first time

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Astronomers have "compelling evidence" that they have made the first discovery of an exomoon ?" a moon orbiting a planet far beyond our solar system. The team at Columbia University, New York, combined observations from two space telescopes, Kepler and Hubble, to determine that a huge natural satellite accompanies planet K1625b, which is 8,000 light-years from Earth.


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