JWST Excludes Exomoons Down to 0.1 Earth Radii Around a Rocky, Temperate Exoplanet

JWST Ruled Out Finding Tiny Moons Around An Exoplanet

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened up many wonders of the cosmos to scientists since it began its science operations a few years ago. But one thing that it hasn’t done is find an “exomoon”. These, as yet still theoretical, moons orbit exoplanets in other star systems, and JWST was supposed to find a plethora of them. However, so far it has found precisely none. It seems the cause is noise in the telescope’s instrumentation or noise…

JWST Excludes Exomoons Down to 0.1 Earth Radii Around a Rocky, Temperate Exoplanet

[astro-ph.EP] To date, even with JWST, it has not been possible to test for exomoons as small as the Moon. Only two reported searches for exomoons around bound planets have […]