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moons crazy um send your questions into

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one of the questions that i had seen

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constellation sagittarius or no what's

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observing and so that's why the system

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and um again this this system this

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orbiting at a distance from its star

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where liquid water exists but these two

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particular objects are so um large and

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planet system as opposed to a binary

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very large jupiter-like planet with a

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follower asking um if we plan to send a

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probe to this exo moon nicole what do

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really find the planets and measure

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their properties and um

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and

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you know learn more about them

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and in terms of the distance right that

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was the other part of the question uh so

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how we measure the distance there was

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actually um an uh mission called gaia

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that is recently collecting data to

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measure positions of stars in the sky

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and based on measuring the positions of

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the stars we actually can measure kind

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of like this angle of how much they move

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and that

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actually tells us the distance away from

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earth so

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it's it's really again an army of

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telescopes that operates you know in

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concert to provide all this information

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to get us the size even mass you know

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distance everything

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so it's a lot of work but it's it's

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definitely worth it so we're lucky we

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have a great team that's right

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um

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so we've got another question from ask

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nasa um

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it is how much stronger is the gravity

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on this exo moon compared to than

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well that's a very good question i think

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i would have to sit and calculate that

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we know that it's mass

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uh

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they were they asked about the moon or

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the planet so it looks it looks like

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compared to earth how much stronger is

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the gravity on this x-moon compared to

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earth

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okay so this

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moon is

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basically larger than earth it's

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basically the size of neptune so it's

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going to have a stronger gravitational

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field based on the mass difference

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between the moon and the earth i can't

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actually tell you that because we don't

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know for sure the actual mass of this

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moon

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but it's going to be stronger and it's

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also going to be an odd thing to imagine

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because it doesn't have a solid surface

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so if you're thinking about you know

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jumping up and down on this moon like

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you might do on earth's moon if you were

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an astronaut you're not going to have

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the same experience so it's stronger and

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that may have actually interesting

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implications for the layers of

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atmosphere

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in this moon so if we have future

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telescopes where we can actually

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measure the composition of the

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atmosphere of this moon and compare it

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to let's say planets in our own gaseous

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planets in our own solar system we may

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be able to understand something about

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how that moon has been formed what its

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nature is and how that strong

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gravitational field is affecting how the

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layers of

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of gases are arranging themselves in

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this moon so i look forward to being

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able to understand the effects of the

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gravitational field and maybe even a

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magnetic field when we have future

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observations

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so we're just going to have to wait and

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see for a lot of these questions um

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so this is actually a really interesting

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question um

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if our own earth was this far away would

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we be able to detect it

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so if our earth was like 8 000 light

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years away i guess at the same distance

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um that's a good question it

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so the initial

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planet that that this moon orbits around

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is a jupiter-sized planet which is

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something like 10 11 12 times the size

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of earth so it causes a pretty large dip

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in light

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so the earth being that much smaller

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would cause a much smaller dip um like a

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tenth of of what

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um that jupiter causes so

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we would basically need you know very

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very precise instruments and kepler did

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discover um several earth-sized

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exoplanets

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um but then to have you know an exomoon

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around it

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that's something we haven't discovered

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yet

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so you know there's

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it's tricky

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is the answer

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um it depends on a lot of things um but

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you know it's not um

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it's not impossible you just need to

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make sure you have the right you know

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telescope basically

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continue sending your questions into

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hashtag s nasa by the way we will get to

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as many as we can and we'll get to some

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after the show too i'm sure um so

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how does the gravity well if we discuss

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gravity how's the electromagnetic field

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of that exomoon compared to earth do we

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do we even have any information on that

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yet

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well that's a that's a great question

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because that would impact all kinds of

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things about the environment about that

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exome

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so

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we don't have a lot of information about

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this whole system but as as i mentioned

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earlier we think that the star that this

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planet and potential moon are orbiting

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um is not too different from our sun so

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it's going to have some of those same

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characteristics of the sun which would

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include magnetic field activity that

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might in fact interact

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occasionally the the stellar activity

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may interact with this planet and its

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moon its system just the same way as our

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sun has certain activity flares and so

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forth that

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interact with our

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earth moon system

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and then it's quite possible that this

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planet that this moon is associated with

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would have a magnetic field that

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magnetic field would impact

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its moon and it would affect the

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environment there that would infect how

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that system is interacting with flares

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and particles cosmic rays coming from

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its parent star so we don't know yet

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what the magnetic field might be around

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that system we know it's going to get

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the same you know ballpark radiation

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from its parent star as we get from the

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sun

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in our earth moon system

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and this will impact whether there is

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any sort of habitability in this region

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at the very least it will be very

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interesting to study so i'm just we keep

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talking about future telescopes but i'm

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i'm very keen about this direction of

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astronomy because we are using the

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telescopes we have like hubble um and

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soon tests to learn what we can but

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future telescopes like the james webb

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space telescope are going to be able to

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give us more details about the nature of

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this exoplanet system and others

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and the environments around them and

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what their moons might be like in terms

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of their interactions with magnetic

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fields with radiation

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temperatures

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all kinds of things so this is just the

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beginning of our investigation into this

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whole type of object

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it's a new science

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so

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this is

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may be a little bit difficult uh is it

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possible that this moon could have its

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own moons

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oh that is a great question

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and a difficult one um well first it i

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mean i'll say anything's possible you

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know as we've been discovering all kinds

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of exoplanets first of all things that

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we didn't know could exist

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that orbit so close to their star that

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you know they orbit within one day

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compared to our one year orbit so things

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like this that we've never even dreamed

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of um so

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an exo moon having its own moons is

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possible especially when um

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this moon is so massive that maybe it

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could what we call you know use its

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gravity to capture other smaller bodies

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around it um like mars has two very tiny

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moons relatively speaking compared to

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our moon

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so maybe there's some very tiny moons

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that have been captured by this moon and

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are orbiting but we just don't have the

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right instruments to be able to detect

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them right now

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and yeah but it's definitely possible

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that could be cool

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so

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we've been talking about hubble and

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we've been talking about nasa's

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anniversary and um so nasa's been around

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for 60 years and hubble's been around

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for almost half that time how's our

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telescope doing

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well we're excited about hubble so as

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you say hubble's been around almost half

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the time that nasa's been around and we

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just celebrated hubble's 28th

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birthday

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earlier this year

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hubble's been working well because we

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have this terrific crew of people on the

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ground that are keeping it a strong

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scientifically working and we've had

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several crews of astronauts over the

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years

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coming back to

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upgrade the telescope and service it

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keeping it in tip-top shape so

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hubble is in great shape we're getting

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some of the best science out of it now

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than ever before in its history we're

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learning not only about the atmospheres

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of some exoplanets but we're also

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learning about star systems other

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galaxies even the whole universe the

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history of the universe

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and we anticipate getting good science

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from hubble for quite a few years to

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come

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in fact we are hoping that we overlap

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with the james webb space telescope

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which will launch in 2021

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and overlap with that telescope for

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several years because these

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complementary observatories are going to

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give us terrific science they're going

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to cover the wavelength range of light

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from mid infrared all the way through

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the visible colors that our eyes can see

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and on into the higher energy

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ultraviolet light this gives us a great

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deal of information about whatever we're

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studying whether it's exoplanets

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or

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planets planets in our own solar system

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and and of course other stars and

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galaxies and we complement other

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missions you know hubble is being used

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to complement the information that we're

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getting from probes that we're sending

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within our own solar system for example

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the juno probe studying

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jupiter in our own solar system is

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sending back information that we're

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correlating with observations from

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hubble we're using we've used it along

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with new horizons to study

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pluto we're using it with other missions

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to study things outside of our solar

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system and in in the deep universe

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so i think hubble's in great shape and

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will be for quite a few years to come

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and that makes me very happy that makes

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me very happy but unfortunately this is

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the end of the show um

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if you want to know more about hubble or

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about this exo moon you can go to our

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website nasa.gov hubble we got a bunch

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of great new products up there we've got

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an interactive timeline that you can see

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hubble milestones you can check out a

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360 tour of our space telescope

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operations control room you can see

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where all the action happens and we've

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uploaded hours of hubble historical

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video for you to check out so head to

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nasa.gov hubble or you can find us on

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social media at nasa hubble and