Exomoons and Exorings with the Habitable Worlds Observatory. II. Finding “Endor” with Lunar Eclipses
Mary Anne Limbach et al 2026 AJ 171 201 Researchers lay out a path to finding Earth-sized moons around Jupiter-sized planets by detecting when the moon ducks behind the planet from our point of view…
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