{"id":3923427,"date":"2026-01-05T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-ambitious-plan-to-spot-habitable-moons-around-giant-planets\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:00:56","slug":"the-ambitious-plan-to-spot-habitable-moons-around-giant-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/the-ambitious-plan-to-spot-habitable-moons-around-giant-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"The ambitious plan to spot habitable moons around giant planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>So far, humanity has yet to find its first &#8220;exomoon&#8221;\u2014a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn&#8217;t been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of the European Southern Observatory and his co-authors, which is available on the arXiv preprint server, the reason isn&#8217;t because those moons don&#8217;t exist, but simply because we lack the technology to detect them. They propose a new &#8220;kilometric baseline interferometer&#8221; that can detect moons as small as Earth up to 200 parsecs (652 light years) away.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-ambitious-habitable-moons-giant-planets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, humanity has yet to find its first &#8220;exomoon&#8221;\u2014a moon orbiting a planet outside of the solar system. But that hasn&#8217;t been for lack of trying. According to a new paper by Thomas Winterhalder of the European Southern Observatory and his co-authors, which is available on the arXiv preprint server, the reason isn&#8217;t because [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}