Brown Dwarf Stars
Brrr. JWST Looks at the Coldest Brown Dwarf
What are the atmospheric compositions of cold brown dwarf stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical…
8 months ago
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…
5 years ago
Nearby Brown Dwarf System May Harbor Closest Exoplanet to Earth
In 2012 astronomers announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet circling our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri B, a mere 4.3…
11 years ago
Astronomers Watch as a Black Hole Eats a Rogue Planet
In Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon narrowly escaped being devoured by an exogorth (space slug) slumbering inside an asteroid crater.…
12 years ago
Free Range Brown Dwarfs
[/caption] Using two of the world's largest optical-infrared telescopes, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope (VLT)…
13 years ago