so, we may have found our first moon orbiting another planet? http://advances.sciencemag.org/lens/advances/4/10/eaav1784
it isn't confirmed yet (much like between the first detection of an exoplanet {1988} and the first confirmed one {1992, or '95 if we're talking main sequence stars}, this'll take years), but the evidence so far is well in favor of the object in question being a moon instead of a planet and honestly I'm excited as hell for this?
@Thaminga Um. We've found *lots* of moons orbiting other planets. Io, Ganymede, Phobos, Deimos, Titan, Europa, and that's just off the top of my head.
It's the first time we've seen a moon around an *exo*planet though.
@keiyakins hi, I'm tired, you know what I meant, and I'm extremely not in the mood for people getting pedantic as shit about minor mistakes
@Thaminga "Changes the whole meaning of the sentence" isn't minor. I figured out what you meant from the rest of the toot but I still got very confused for a moment.
@keiyakins I'd say that "missed a whole three letters in excitement about having our sample size for this shit increased beyond 20 or so as far as objects that are actually massive enough to stay in a roughly spherical shape goes" is pretty minor, yeah
regardless, you usually talk to people like this? because it's rude as shit
