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  • Something Is Orbiting These Distant Exoplanets After All, According to Researchers Who Fire Back Over Exomoon Controversy

    01/25/2024 8:36:19 PM PST · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    The Debrief ^ | JANUARY 25, 2024 | MJ BANIAS
    The search for exomoons orbiting planets outside our solar system has sparked a significant debate within the astronomical community, involving a pair of contrasting studies that presented divergent viewpoints on the existence of exomoons Kepler-1625b-i and Kepler-1708b-i. Much like Schrödinger’s oddball cat that is both dead and alive inside a box, we won’t really know until someone goes and looks. But in a new paper recently uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, a team of astronomers led by David Kipping from Columbia University takes issue with the drama surrounding the ongoing exomoon search. A DISCOVERY GETS DASHED In 2017, Kipping,...