The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion ... stands out as a singular system. Yet, among the hundreds of billions of solar systems in our Galaxy, we have probed only ...

So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named Gliese 229B is now recognized as Gliese 229Ba, with a mass 38 times greater than our solar system's largest planet Jupiter, and Gliese 229Bb ...

In 1995, a parallel race was on in astronomy — one to find the first planet beyond our own solar system, and the other to find the first brown dwarf, a class of object too heavy to be a planet ...

Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 ... and how different solar systems are from our own,” said study co-author Rebecca ...

So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named Gliese 229B is now recognized as Gliese 229Ba, with a mass 38 times greater than our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, and Gliese 229Bb, with ...

Brown dwarfs named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb are 19 light years from our solar system. In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be ...

So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named Gliese 229B is now recognized as Gliese 229Ba, with a mass 38 times greater than our solar system’s largest planet Jupiter, and Gliese 229Bb ...