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Here’s a First. Astronomers See a Moon Forming Around a Baby Exoplanet

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Here’s a First. Astronomers See a Moon Forming Around a Baby Exoplanet

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    Here’s a First. Astronomers See a Moon Forming Around a Baby Exoplanet
    by Evan Gough

    Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have suspected for a long time that this is how larger planets—like Jupiter in our own Solar System—get their moons. It’s all happening around a very young star named PDS 70, about 370 light years away …

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