Space.com1mon
These 'failed stars' orbit so closely it took 29 years to tell they were a pair
"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...
Newsweek27d
Astronomers Finally Crack 30-Year Star Mystery
A long-standing astronomical mystery about the first-ever discovered brown dwarf has finally been solved by scientists. The brown dwarf, named Gliese 229B, was discovered in 1995 but has puzzled ...
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.
The Independent29d
Astronomers solve decades-long mystery of famous brown dwarf
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... mystery surrounding the first known brown dwarf — a “failed star” called ...
Astronomy18d
Astronomers find out the first known brown dwarf is actually twins
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 ...
New Scientist1mon
The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why
“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fin ...
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 ...
News 6 WKMG29d
A brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago is actually twins circling each other
6 projects would cost $100M per year Read full article: Why go to the movie theater when you can ... provided by Caltech depicts the orbits of brown dwarf twins, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb ...
The Straits Times27d
Three decades later, first brown dwarf ever found offers a surprise
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 ...
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.
The Hindu26d
First brown dwarf ever found throws up surprise three decades later
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. But it turns out that was ...