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1/5Big news this week: We now have our first evidence of a moon orbiting around an exoplanet. Using data from the Kepler Space Telescope and Hubble, scientists inferred the presence of the moon shown in this artist’s depiction the same way they do when they detect an exoplanet: They wait for the body to pass in front of another body and watch for a dip in the light.
Finding moons around planets is extremely helpful because their presence can help determine the mass of the planet in question. (Other handy details help determine the mass of the planet too, like whether or not the planet is rotating or is tidally locked onto its star the way our moon is to us.NASA/ESA3/5Opportunity! We found you! NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the Opportunity Rover on Mars in Perseverance Valley. The rover got caught up in a global dust storm earlier this year and has been incommunicative since the storm began. However, the dust is settling and the skies are clear enough for the orbiter to image the tiny rover on the surface. Now we are just waiting for it to wake up from its sleep.NASA/JPL-Caltech4/5The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope takes some pretty mind-blowing images of space, partly…
