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🔭 Brown dwarfs: this 30-year-old mystery finally resolved about the "incomprehensible star"
A mysterious object in our sky, Gliese 229 B, continues to intrigue astronomers. Recent revelations about its hidden identity ...
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These 'failed stars' orbit so closely it took 29 years to tell they were a pair
A well-studied cosmic object has stunned astronomers. The "failed star" Gliese 229B has been revealed to be two so-called "brown dwarfs" that are closely orbiting each other rather than just one.
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The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why
The first “failed star” ever discovered has been a weird outlier since it was found nearly 30 years ago. New observations show that it is unusually massive because it isn’t a single star after all ...
Astronomers Finally Crack 30-Year Star Mystery
"This is the most exciting and fascinating discovery in substellar astrophysics in decades," an astrophysicist said.
Physics World13d
Mysterious brown dwarf is two objects, not one
Within GRAVITY’s combined observations, Xuan’s team discovered that Gliese 229 B was not a single object, but a pair of brown ...
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Can 'failed stars' have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues
"This information will help us fill in the gaps in our knowledge of how brown dwarfs form and their relationship to stars and planets." ...
A ‘Future Earth’ Has Been Found Around A Dying Star — What To Know
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
Honolulu Star-Advertiser28d
3 decades later, 1st brown dwarf ever found offers surprise
WASHINGTON >> In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet — sort of a celestial tweener.
Webb Telescope Might Have Discovered First Brown Dwarfs Outside The Milky Way
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the first brown dwarf star candidates outside the Milky Way. The European Space Agency (ESA) said that these candidates reside in the star cluster NGC 602 ...
The Straits Times27d
Three decades later, first brown dwarf ever found offers a surprise
These two brown dwarfs are gravitationally locked to each other in what is called a binary system, an arrangement commonly observed among stars. So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named ...
Yahoo27d
Three decades later, first brown dwarf ever found offers a surprise
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.
U.S. News & World Report27d
Three Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers a Surprise
Three Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers a Surprise By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body ...