brown dwarfs
Astronomers Solve the Mystery of the Famed Brown Dwarf That is Too Bright: It’s Twins!
In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese…
Do We Now Have an Accurate Map of Nearby Stars?
If the Sun has a stellar neighbourhood, it can be usefully defined as a 20 parsec (65 light-years) sphere centred…
Brown Dwarf Pairs Drift Apart in Old Age
The only thing worse than drifting through space for an eternity is doing it alone. Observations with the Hubble Space…
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…
This Brown Dwarf is 2,000 Degrees Hotter Than the Sun
Astronomers have discovered an intense binary star system located about 1,400 light years away. It contains a brown dwarf with…
An Astronomical First! A Radiation Belt Seen Outside the Solar System
For the first time, a team of astronomers has imaged the radiation belt of an object from beyond the Solar…
The Next Generation of Telescopes Will Tell Us About the Weather on Other Worlds
A study shows how next-generation Extremely Large Telescopes are going to let astronomers get a glimpse of what's going on…
NASA Provides a Timelapse Movie Showing How the Universe Changed Over 12 Years
The Universe is over 13 billion years old, so a 12-year slice of that time might seem uneventful. But a…
The Moons of Rogue Planets Could Have Liquid Surface Water and Thick Atmospheres. They Could be Habitable
A rocky world might not need a star to be habitable. It might just need to orbit a large gas…
Jupiter Could Make an Ideal Dark Matter Detector
So, you want to find dark matter, but you don't know where to look? A giant planet might be exactly…