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“When we run our models, the moon model emerges as the

best explanation for the data and has the added benefit for
being a single explanation for the timing effects in the dimming
of the star that we see in the data. Still, we are urging caution
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There is nothing in the Solar System quite like it. The biggest
moons in proportion to their planet's size are Earth’s own and
Pluto’s moon Charon, and they are tiny by comparison. They
were also formed through impacts and so are rocky objects;
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“We hope to re-observe the star in the future to verify or reject

the exomoon hypothesis. If validated, the planet-sized moon
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in many ways echoing the unexpected discovery of hot Jupiters
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Caspar Teppema
Obviously I'm not a scientist, but a gas giant three times
the size of Jupiter? As far as I've read, Jupiter is so big
that it's a bordeline failed star. It's so big that the center of
rotation of our solar system is actually not within the sun.
If it were to be any bigger, the core gravity would be so
immens it would start to fuse the cores of the elements
inside and thus become a star, creating a dual-star
planetary system. In this way, how could a planet get any
bigger than Jupiter?
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Alex Schultheis
The things you read were somewhat....
exaggerated. The smallest brown dwarfs - not
even true stars, as they never achieve proton-
proton fusion in their cores, only ever developing
deuterium fusion - are 13 times as massive as
Jupiter.
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Kevin M Tyree
It's not size alone that determines whether or nor
fusion occurs. Not only does it need to be huge, it
also need the correct pressures, density,
temperature and chemical makeup to start fusing
hydrogen atoms into helium.

This planet, like Jupiter, is made up of not only

Hydrogen, but Helium, Ammonia and other noble
gases not typically seen in stars. The relativistic
size of the dwarf could grow as big as the sun,
but without proper temps, pressure and density,
it'll remain a 'cousin' to Jupiter.
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Ole Peko Sørensen

Amazing! This moon is thought to be rocky, right? Can
moons be gaseous?

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Neyon Schurdak
i think it is supposed to be gaseous, that's at least
what i understood... the definition of moon is
something like "planetary object orbiting another
planet" .. isnt it?
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