Brown Dwarf
Astronomers find 100 brown dwarfs in our neighborhood
Brown dwarfs are smallish objects sitting somewhere between stars and planets, making them notoriously hard to find. But a recent…
Astronomers Can Actually See the Clouds and Weather on Brown Dwarf 6.5 Light-Years Away
Brown dwarfs are in a tough spot. Not quite a star, not quite a planet, they occupy a place between…
Astronomers Measure the Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf for the First Time. Spoiler: Insanely Fast
In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature's stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in…
348 Years Ago, a French Astronomer Monk Might have Witnessed the Collision Between a White and Brown Dwarf Star
A collision between a white dwarf and a brown dwarf created the object we call CK Vulpeculae. It was first…
Astronomers Observe a Pulsar 6500 Light-Years From Earth and See Two Separate Flares Coming off its Surface
A team of Canadian astronomers viewed an eclipsing binary pulsar and used the gas as an "interstellar lens" to capture…
Where’s the Line Between Massive Planet and Brown Dwarf Star?
Astronomers have debated which objects are gas giants like Jupiter, and which are more correctly called brown dwarfs. A new…
Strange Loner Planet Gets Astronomers’ Attention
After examining the strange object known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, a team has determined that it is either a solitary planetary-mass…
First Detection of Water Clouds Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water…
Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy ‘Super-Jupiter’
Astronomers use the Hubble Space Telescope to pin down the rotation rate of an exoplanet 170 light years from Earth…
Massive Planet Gone Rogue Discovered
A massive rogue planet has been discovered in the Beta Pictoris moving group.