First Moon Beyond Our Solar System Discovery, Jacuzzi of Despair, and The Winner Effect
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how astronomers may have just discovered the first moon beyond our solar system; why the “jacuzzi of despair” kills everything that enters it; and why the winner effect says one win leads to even more wins.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Astronomers May Have Just Discovered the First Moon Beyond Our Solar System
- The Jacuzzi of Despair Is a Deadly Lake Within the Gulf of Mexico
- The Winner Effect Says One Win Leads to Even More
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.1 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.1 | Today you learn about how astronomers may have just discovered the first moon beyond our solar |
| 0:11.4 | system. |
| 0:12.4 | Why the jacuzzi of despair kills everything that |
| 0:15.1 | enters it, and why the winner effect says one win leads to even more wins. |
| 0:19.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily. |
| 0:23.2 | Astronomers may have just discovered the first moon beyond our solar system. |
| 0:27.8 | That's right, two space discoveries in the same week. |
| 0:30.9 | It has been a good week for astronomy. |
| 0:32.6 | It really has. |
| 0:34.0 | So thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we have the strongest evidence yet for a moon orbiting |
| 0:38.6 | a planet outside of our solar system. |
| 0:40.9 | This possible exomoon, as it's called, orbits a planet 8,000 light years away from us. |
| 0:46.5 | It's known as Kepler 1625B, and a paper based on the research was published in the journal Science Advances. If it exists, it would be about the size of Neptune, which makes it kind of an oddball. |
| 0:58.0 | Here's why we think the moon is where it is. First is the variation of light. You know that planet we said is 8,000 light years away from us? |
| 1:05.6 | Well, over 19 long hours, Hubble observed the planet passing across its star, which is known as a planetary |
| 1:12.2 | transit. |
| 1:13.3 | About three and a half hours after the planet went by, |
| 1:16.0 | there was a second and smaller dimming of light. |
| 1:18.7 | That suggests a moon trailing the planet, |
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