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The coldest brown dwarf ever observed
Apr 10, 2008 |
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An international team led by French and Canadian astronomers has just discovered the coldest brown dwarf ever observed. Their results will soon be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. This new finding was ma ...
Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on a study of 233 nearby multiple-star systems by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ...
Researchers reveal brown dwarfs as third class of celestial bodies after stars and planets
Aug 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The systematics of celestial bodies apparently needs to be revised. Researchers at the Argelander Institute of Astronomy of the University of Bonn have discovered that brown dwarfs need to be treated as a ...
Dimmest star-like objects discovered
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The two faintest star-like objects ever found, a pair of twin “brown dwarfs” each just a millionth as bright as the sun, have been spotted by a team led by MIT physicist Adam Burgasser.
Brown Dwarfs Beaming Like Pulsars
Apr 18, 2007 |
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Brown dwarfs, thought just a few years ago to be incapable of emitting any significant amounts of radio waves, have been discovered putting out extremely bright "lighthouse beams" of radio waves, much like ...
Brown Dwarfs Do Form Like Stars
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have uncovered strong evidence that brown dwarfs form like stars. Using the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA), they detected molecules of carbon monoxide shooting outward ...
Smashing young stars leave dwarfs in their wake
Jun 09, 2006 |
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Astronomers have discovered that the large disks of gas and dust around young stars will fragment if two young stars pass close to each other and form smaller brown dwarfs stars with disks of their own.
Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf
Nov 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these ...
NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...
A brown dwarf joins the jet-set
May 23, 2007 |
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Jets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass 'failed star', mimicking a process seen in young stars. This suggests that these 'brown dwarfs' form in a similar manner to normal stars but also ...
The Sun's New Exotic Neighbour
Mar 22, 2006 |
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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, an international team of researchers discovered a brown dwarf belonging to the 24th closest stellar system to the Sun. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects that are ...
Astronomers weigh the coldest brown dwarfs with astronomy's sharpest eyes
Jun 02, 2008 |
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Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to determine for the first time the masses of the coldest class of "failed stars," a.k.a. brown dwarfs. With ...
Hubble Photographs One of the Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen
Sep 07, 2006 |
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects ever seen around a normal star beyond our Sun. Weighing in at 12 times the mass of Jupiter, the object is small ...
A planet in progress?
Mar 26, 2008 |
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Scientists are one step closer to understanding how new planets form, thanks to research funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and carried out by a team of astrophysicists at the American Museum ...
Scientists snap first images of brown dwarf in planetary system
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered and directly imaged a small brown dwarf star, 50 times the mass of Jupiter, orbiting with a planet around a Sun-like star. Such an arrangement ...
