Moons BEYOND the Solar System

Most of the planets in the Solar System have moons. We have discovered almost 200 in our Solar System alone, and so we expect that the Milky Way is teeming with moons- perhaps more moons than planets and stars. With this many, it greatly increases the number of worlds in the galaxy which could support life- and so we are keen to find them. However, they are so distant and dark that detecting extrasolar moons, or “exomoons”, is a tremendous challenge.

Check out exomoonologist David Kipping’s YouTube channel below!
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AUDIO TRACKS USED:
– Satya Yuga | Jesse Gallagher (YouTube Audio Library)
– The Sleeping Prophet | Jesse Gallagher (YouTube Audio Library)
– Where in Literally | pATCHES (YouTube Audio Library)
– The Golden Present | Jesse Gallagher (YouTube Audio Library)

FOOTAGE USED:
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Other Footage:
– Rocket Stock Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phg1bE8XTIE
– Observatory Stock Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWfWlRY08dM
– Hubble Telescope Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seXU39-rRvA

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
– Exomoon Definition and Detection Strategies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exomoon
– Radial Velocity Method: https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/R/radial_velocity_method.html

Kepler-1625b-I Information:
– Kepler-1625: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-1625
– Moon Detection Press Release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/astronomers-find-first-evidence-of-possible-moon-outside-our-solar-system
– Evidence for Large Exomoon: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784
– BBC on Kepler-1625b-i: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45707309
– HubbleSite: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2018/news-2018-45.html

MOA-2011-BLG-262 Information:
– MOA-2011-BLG-262, a microlensing Exomoon candidate: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3951
– JPL on MOA: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-109

Six Exomoon Candidate Information:
– News Story https://earthsky.org/space/astronomers-discover-6-possible-new-exomoons
– Other News Story: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2247150-astronomers-have-spotted-six-possible-exomoons-in-distant-star-systems/
– Independent Analysis of six July 2020 Candidates: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.03613.pdf

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
1:09 Exomoons
4:26 How We Find Exomoons
8:53 Kepler 1625 b-i
13:28 Other Exomoon Candidates