“Until now, we’ve known of about 3000 brown dwarfs, but they all live inside our own galaxy,” team member Elena Manjavacas of AURA/STScI for the European Space Agency said in a statemen ...

Stars and brown dwarfs alike are created in dense clouds of gases like hydrogen. These clouds "fragment" apart, and inside each of these objects take shape under forces dominated by gravity ...

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 ...