Perhaps the most famous science fictional speculation on habitable exoplanet moons is the creation of Yavin in the 1977 film Star Wars. The rebel base is located on Yavin 4, the fourth moon of a large gas giant designated as Yavin (or Yavin Prime):
Yavin was not a habitable world. The huge gas giant was patterned with pastel high-altitude cloud formations...
Several of the giant planet's numerous moons, however, were planet-sized themselves, and of these, three could support humanoid life. Particularly inviting was the satellite designated by the system's discoverers as number four. It shone like an emerald in Yavin's necklace of moons, rich with plant and animal life...
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