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An international collaboration has used data from Webb to characterize a brown dwarf, and found clouds of sand in its…
Astronomers have a brown dwarf problem. They should be seeing a lot more of these objects, which are cooler than…
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Some brown dwarfs rotate so fast that they are flattened spheres. If they rotate any faster they might fly apart.
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Brown dwarfs are the weird not-planets but not-stars in the universe, and astronomers have wondered for decades if their atmospheres…
A brown dwarf has been detected by a radio telescope, which opens a new way to discover them.
Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard to find. But a recent…