When you launch humanity's most powerful telescope, you expect results. The JWST has delivered excellent results by detecting ancient galaxies,…
Astronomers have discovered an intense binary star system located about 1,400 light years away. It contains a brown dwarf with…
Astronomers have an ultracool star that only has a surface temperature of 425 degrees centigrade, cooler than the cleaning cycle…
For the first time, a team of astronomers has imaged the radiation belt of an object from beyond the Solar…
The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful. But a…
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…
Gravity is a funny force. The gravity of every given object technically impacts every other given object, though, in practice,…
An accidental discovery suggests that brown dwarfs are more common than we thought, and may solve the mystery of the…
Some brown dwarfs rotate so fast that they are flattened spheres. If they rotate any faster they might fly apart.