Astronomers spot evidence of volcanically active exomoon
Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Scientists may have found a volcanically active moon outside our solar system.
Hints of the moon's presence were discovered hiding in the WASP-49 solar system. Astronomers likened the moon to Io, the most volcanically active body in our solar system.
They also likened the moon to a satellite from Star Wars, the planet Mustafar, where Darth Vader's castle is located.
"It would be a dangerous volcanic world with a molten surface of lava, a lunar version of close-in Super Earths like 55 Cancri-e, a place where Jedis go to die, perilously familiar to Anakin Skywalker," Apurva Oza, postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Insitute of the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in a news release.
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