exomoon in A Sentence

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    Six months after its unveiling, uncertainty still swirls around the first serious Exomoon candidate.

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    The Exomoon is gaseous and is the size of Neptune and orbits Kepler 1625b, which is the size of Jupiter.

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    We find that the Exomoon hypothesis heavily relies on a chain of delicate assumptions, all of which need to be further investigated," the researchers wrote.

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    However,"careful consideration of its statistical evidence leads us to believe that this is not a secure Exomoon detection," Heller and his colleagues wrote in their paper, which was published this month in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

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    For the time being, we take the position that the first Exomoon has yet to be detected, as the likelihood of an Exomoon around Kepler-1625b cannot be assessed with the methods used and data currently available.".

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