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A habitable exomoon is a moon orbiting an extrasolar planet that has the ideal conditions to host life as we know it. A total of 21 exomoon candidates have been detected, but none of them have been confirmed.

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  • A habitable exomoon is a moon orbiting an extrasolar planet that has the ideal conditions to host life as we know it. A total of 21 exomoon candidates have been detected, but none of them have been confirmed. Habitability of extrasolar moons will depend on stellar and planetary illumination on moons as well as the effect of eclipses on their orbit-averaged surface illumination. Beyond that, tidal heating might play a role for a moon's habitability. In 2012, scientists introduced a concept to define the habitable orbits of moons; they define an inner border of an habitable moon around a certain planet and call it the circumplanetary "habitable edge". Moons closer to their planet than the habitable edge are uninhabitable. (en)
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  • A habitable exomoon is a moon orbiting an extrasolar planet that has the ideal conditions to host life as we know it. A total of 21 exomoon candidates have been detected, but none of them have been confirmed. (en)
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