{"id":3927111,"date":"2026-07-22T10:01:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/jupiter-mass-exomoon-orbiting-brown-dwarf-challenges-cosmic-labels\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:01:52","slug":"jupiter-mass-exomoon-orbiting-brown-dwarf-challenges-cosmic-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/jupiter-mass-exomoon-orbiting-brown-dwarf-challenges-cosmic-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter-mass &#8216;exomoon&#8217; orbiting brown dwarf challenges cosmic labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Observations made with the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our solar system, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger than a planet, that orbits the CD-35 2722 star. If confirmed, this could be the first &#8220;moon&#8221; discovered outside our solar system.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-jupiter-mass-exomoon-orbiting-brown.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observations made with the European Southern Observatory&#8217;s Very Large Telescope (ESO&#8217;s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our solar system, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger [&#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-3927111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}