{"id":11172,"date":"2026-07-23T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2026-07-23T10:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:24:00","slug":"faintest-planet-ever-imaged-from-earth-found-after-more-than-10-years-of-hide-and-seek-eso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/faintest-planet-ever-imaged-from-earth-found-after-more-than-10-years-of-hide-and-seek-eso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018exomoon\u2019 detection challenges cosmic labels &#8211; ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">22\/07\/2026 &#8211; Observations made with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger than a planet, that orbits the CD-35 2722 star. If confirmed, this could be the first \u2018moon\u2019 discovered outside our Solar System.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/unitedkingdom\/news\/eso2610\/?lang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story in the ESO Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"962\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png\" alt=\"Rappresentazione artistica di CD-35 2722, un sistema con un oggetto simile alla Luna (Crediti: ESO\/M. Kornmesser)\" class=\"wp-image-11175\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artist\u2019s impression of CD-35 2722, a system with a moon-like object\u00a0(Credit: ESO\/M. Kornmesser)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22\/07\/2026 &#8211; Observations made with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[390,761,365],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-eso-2","tag-moon","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",962,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",150,104,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",300,208,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",768,533,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",962,668,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",962,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2610.png",962,668,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>22\/07\/2026 &#8211; Observations made with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown dwarf, an object larger than a planet, that orbits the CD-35 2722 star. If confirmed, this could be the first \u2018moon\u2019 discovered outside our Solar System. Read the full story in the ESO Press Release Artist\u2019s impression of CD-35 2722, a system with a moon-like object\u00a0(Credit: ESO\/M.&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11179,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions\/11179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}