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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 ...
A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...
It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs - celestial objects too small to be a star and too big to be a planet. And its orbit is unlike any other such planet on record. Sign up here. Brown dwarfs ...
Luke found life on Tatooine to be boring, but he should be glad, because as we have seen, binary stars have the potential to ...
The Milky Way is known to host a diverse array of planetary systems, providing astronomers with extensive insights into how ...
WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...
It orbits not two stars but two brown dwarfs – celestial objects too small to be a star and too big to be a planet. And its orbit is unlike any other such planet on record. Brown dwarfs could be ...
There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it's not alone. There is also likely a forest of binary ...
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 ...
An artist's impression shows the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b's unusual orbit around a pair of brown dwarfs, objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. — Reuters/File ...