"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf," says Jerry W. Xuan, a graduate student working with Dimitri Mawet, the David Morrisroe Professor of Astronomy. "And now we know we were ...

A stronomers have made a surprising discovery about Gliese 229B, a well-known brown dwarf first identified nearly 30 years ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

Recent observations, however, reveal that Gliese 229B is actually two brown dwarfs orbiting each other closely, forming a binary system. This was confirmed through studies using telescopes in ...