This video says about itself:
The Hunt for Exomoons – Lightcurve Demo
from Alex Parker
In addition to the host of new planets discovered by the Kepler mission, we are now capable of detecting large moons circling planets around other stars. These exomoons modify the shape, timing, and duration of the transit lightcurve of their host planet, and this illustration demonstrates all of these effects.
New algorithms are being developed to detect these signatures in Kepler data, and if large moons are common in the universe, the first exomoon discovery could happen at any time.
From Scientific American about this:
What an Exomoon Would Look Like from Earth [Video]
Moons orbiting distant planets might be visible in existing spacecraft data
By Michael Moyer | January 1, 2014
In “Astronomers Search for Moons Circling Distant Exoplanets” author Lee Billings explores the hunt for moons orbiting distant planets—exomoons…
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