Brown dwarf—An astronomical object with mass ... orbit the sun twice during every three orbits of Neptune. Protoplanetary disk—A disk of dust, gas, and perhaps developing planets orbiting ...

Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...

"A planet orbiting not just a binary, but a binary brown dwarf, as well as being on a ... for instance finding planet-forming protoplanetary disks around twin stars. However, this is the first ...

Around it, a flat disk of spinning material takes shape. This protoplanetary disk is where planets are made. Until recently, scientists believed this disk was a leftover remnant from the birth of ...

The 2M1510 system, with the brown dwarf binary (A and B) and a third brown dwarf (C) orbiting both of them. (Image credit: DESI Legacy Survey/D. Lang (Perimeter Institute)) But they began to ...