planet

Exomoon

Planetary scienceAstronomyPandora canon

A moon that orbits a planet in another star system. A habitable exomoon must balance up to four heat sources - direct starlight, starlight reflected off its host planet, the gas giant's own infrared glow, and tidal heat generated within - while dodging the host planet's radiation belts. Pandora is exactly such an exomoon. As yet, no exomoon has been firmly confirmed.

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