Sailor Moon: "A Moon Star is Born! ""

美少女战士：月亮星出生！

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Illustration: Planet and moon cross in front of star.

插图：地球和月球在恒星前方交叉。

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The planet is so close to the star that one side is probably locked facing the star, the same way the moon always shows the same face to the Earth.

该行星靠恒星如此之近，很可能它有一面是永远面对着恒星的，正如月球永远只以一面面对地球。

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If skies are clear, individuals can view the conjunction by looking at the Moon and finding the brightest star in the sky next to the Moon, which will be Jupiter.

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Kepler-37b is a tad larger than our heavenly dance partner, the Moon, and whizzes round a star much like our Sun, with two larger planets in its system for company.

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But in constructing the first atmospheric model that has the orbital dynamics of a star-planet-moon system fully included, astronomers Duncan Forgan, at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, and David Kipping, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, turn that idea on its head.

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