brown dwarf
What Makes Brown Dwarfs So Weird?
Meet the brown dwarf: bigger than a planet, and smaller than a star. A category of its own, it’s one…
Studying Stars from the Lunar Surface with MoonLITE, Courtesy of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one big telescope,…
Citizen Scientists Find a Star Escaping the Milky Way
Citizen science is such a great concept. Using the combined computing power of a gazillion (exaggeration) desktop and laptops to…
Webb Maps the Weather on the Closest Brown Dwarfs to Earth
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has done it again. A team of astronomers have used it to map the weather…
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…
A Solo Brown Dwarf Found With Auroras
Astronomers have used JWST to find a brown dwarf with polar auroras like the Earth, or Jupiter. This is surprising…
JWST Accidentally Found 21 Brown Dwarfs
When you launch humanity's most powerful telescope, you expect results. The JWST has delivered excellent results by detecting ancient galaxies,…
Two Stars Orbiting Each Other So Closely They Could Fit Inside the Sun
Astronomers have discovered a pair of star-like objects orbiting each other extremely quickly, with an entire ‘year’ lasting just 1.9…
Twin Brown Dwarfs Discovered, Orbiting one Another at Three Times the Distance From the Sun to Pluto
Gravity is a funny force. The gravity of every given object technically impacts every other given object, though, in practice,…
We Now Have a 3D Map of The 525 Closest Brown Dwarfs
Zooniverse brings out the best of the internet - it leverages the skills of average people to perform scientific feats…