What are the atmospheric compositions of cold brown dwarf stars? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical…
In some ways, brown dwarfs are nature's stellar oddballs. A lot of stars exhibit strange behaviour at different times in…
In 2012 astronomers announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet circling our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri B, a mere 4.3…
In Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon narrowly escaped being devoured by an exogorth (space slug) slumbering inside an asteroid crater.…
[/caption] Using two of the world's largest optical-infrared telescopes, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope (VLT)…