Newly discovered object is so strange that we don’t know what to call it, astronomers say

The object is in the "super weird" star system CD-35 2722 and might be the first moon seen outside of our own solar system. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementAs well as not orbiting a planet, like moons in our own solar system, it circles around a failed star known as a brown dwarf that itself orbits the star in the CD-35 2722. "The exosatellite is clearly massive enough to be a planet, but it does not orbit a star, though it orbits an object that orbits a star," said Kevin Hoy, author on the new study. The strange object is different as it's big enough to be a planet, but doesn't orbit a star (as seen here in our solar system). Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementTo find the new object, researchers looked for small wobbles in the brown dwarf, which are caused by the object that orbits it.