Is It a Moon or a Planet? Astronomers Can’t Decide | Today’s Space News

Is It a Moon or a Planet? Astronomers Can’t Decide | Today’s Space News

Astronomers have confirmed the first moon-like object outside our solar system — and it has broken the rulebook. A Jupiter-mass world orbits a brown dwarf, which in turn orbits a red dwarf star seventy light-years away. Is it an exomoon? An exoplanet? The paper calls it an “exo-satellite”, which is honest and also a bit of a shrug.
Plus: the Milky Way’s most powerful particle accelerator has been confirmed in the direction of Altair, flinging protons at energies more than a hundred times beyond the Large Hadron Collider. NASA’s Chandra observatory catches a black hole starving a galaxy it does not even live in. China launches the world’s largest solid-fuelled rocket from the open ocean for the first time. Starship Flight 13 gets another window — with times for every time zone. And the Moon meets Antares, the heart of the Scorpion.
Chapters block — paste directly
00:00 What is a moon, exactly?
00:35 Welcome and headlines
01:15 The first exo-satellite — CD-35 2722
05:55 The galaxy’s most powerful particle accelerator
10:00 The Red Potato galaxy and its hostile neighbour
13:35 Gravity-1 launches from the open sea
16:55 Starship Flight 13 — when and where to watch
19:10 Skywatch — the Moon and Antares
22:30 Sign-off
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