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(astronomy) A person who searches for, and studies, exomoons..
One of Blighty's top exomoonologists has said that NASA's new "Kepler" space telescope - in addition to its hotly-anticipated ability to discover habitable planets orbiting other stars - will also be able to detect habitable moons orbiting the gas giants of far-flung solar systems.
“We don’t know for sure whether any of the planets in our sample are truly habitable,” explains David Kipping, astroboffin (and sometime exomoonologist). “All we can say is that they’re promising candidates.”
Imagine sitting in bed watching the Science Channel with your daughter and you hear a great quote from the astronomy expert — exomoonologist, to be exact- being interviewed.
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Exomoonologist means (astronomy) A person who searches for, and studies, exomoons..
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One of Blighty's top exomoonologists has said that NASA's new "Kepler" space telescope - in addition to its hotly-anticipated ability to discover habitable planets orbiting other stars - will also be able to detect habitable moons orbiting the gas giants of far-flung solar systems.
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