Is it possible for gas/ice giant type planets have gas/ice dwarf moons. When i was playing space engine i frequently found planets with gaseous moons. So i'm wondering if something like this is scientifically plausible since i want to add this to my planetary system.
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3,679 Junkthunder+1 1.3 years ago
@elitecereal if we were to find a exomoon it would probably be orbiting really close to its star and be massive. Since the closer and bigger ones are easier and faster to find than the really small or far away planets
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the first few exomoons we find are probably going to be gas giant moons as they're way easier to detect. the same thing happened with exoplanets when they were discovered, we detected the big guys first.
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3,098 Kaeya+3 1.3 years ago
Yes. in fact one of the current exomoon candidates is likely a gas world (Kepler-1625 I)
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3,679 Junkthunder1.3 years ago
@LeMagicBaguette what i mean is a moon that's in a transition between planet and gas giant. Because it has a thick Hydrogen and Helium atmosphere.
But just maby a big gas giant planet (4-12 Jupiter mass) with a smoll gas giant moon
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5,243 LeMagicBaguette+1 1.3 years ago
What you’re seeing is likely a dummy thicc atmosphere. A true gas world is nigh if not entirely impossible at that scale.
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oh absolutely, captured, binary even, its theoretically possible for a gas giant to have a gas moon, just cant bee too close to its parent star.