Happy Thought for 17 March 2023
Have a Happy Thought:
You know how the really big, shiny things in the sky are (mostly) stars?
And the biggest things that orbit
those stars are (mostly) planets? (sorry, Pluto!)
And the biggest things that orbit
those planets are moons?
I’m not even kidding, that is the official wording used by astronomers!
Ok, sometimes they call them submoons. Or subsatellites.
I know which one I prefer.
If you want the short version explanation about
these, you can watch this
video from an astronomer, reading a poem he wrote about the paper he wrote
with another astronomer, defining moonmoons and when they could exist. The long version explanation is... reading the paper he wrote (linked in the video description)
No pictures for you, this week, since
there are no moonmoons known, yet.
Only
Callista (moon of Jupiter), Titan (moon of Saturn), or Iapaeteus (another moon
of Saturn) would be capable of having moonmoons – at least, in our solar
system.
We
have yet to find evidence of moonmoons around other stars. But there are possibilities!
And, given the extent of the universe, as being shown to us by the JWST, those
possibilities are nearly endless.
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