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Astronomers Find New Evidence for Volcanic Exomoon around WASP-49Ab


Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the HARPS instrument at ESO’s La Silla 3.6-m telescope, astronomers have detected a sodium cloud close to but slightly out of sync with the hot, Saturn-sized gas-giant exoplanet WASP-49Ab.

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