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First Brown Dwarf Candidates Discovered Beyond Our Galaxy, 200,000 Light-Years From Earth
Namely, they are not massive enough to start nuclear fusion at their cores. These are brown dwarfs. There are a few thousand known brown dwarfs in the Milky Way and we have never seen any beyond ...
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Astronomers Claim the Mysterious Brown Dwarf Is a Double Act, Not a Single Star
Discovered in 1994, Gliese 229 B was the first confirmed brown dwarf, identified in orbit around a red dwarf star. Its ...
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals one of the most mysterious worlds in the universe might have a volcanic moon
NEW ORLEANS — When astronomer Jackie Faherty peered into space using information from the James Webb Space Telescope, there was something she couldn't take her eyes off of. Brown dwarf W1935, a ...