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Foskyatoday at 2:19 PM3 repliesview on HN

I guess it is more of a derivative of the question: "in which bucket should we put the brown dwarf? Is it a star or a planet?". The answer is neither of course; but since it is more closely related to stars than to planets, I'm more inclined to call this satellite an exoplanet (instead of exomoon).

That being said it is still a nice finding, way more difficult to discover than "normal" exopanets.


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selectodudetoday at 2:23 PM

I thought we’re supposed to call them dwarf planets now. Dwarf star, dwarf planet.

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foolfoolztoday at 2:56 PM

Planet++