DeCook was not even to the area he wanted to look through when a shiny brown object caught his eye. "Kind of looks like a candy wrapper. Real shiny looking, kind of like a Werther's candy wrapper ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

(Courtesy: K Miller/R Hurt/Caltech/IPAC) Two independent studies suggest that the brown dwarf Gliese 229 B is not a single object, but rather a pair of brown dwarfs. The two teams reached this ...

Where astronomers thought there was one brown dwarf, there’s actually two. And the object they studied isn’t just any ordinary brown dwarf. Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf ...

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Since the solar system formed over 4.5 billion years ago, planets and other objects have been subject to constant change due to heating from the Sun. But a new model developed by researchers from ...

Brown dwarfs are fascinating objects in their own right since they occupy a murky space between planethood and stardom, but understanding how they form can also shed light on the evolution of ...

2006; Brown and Gullberg, 2010; Papafragou and Selimis ... stimuli was associated with a visual stimulus that depicted the protagonist with four objects using clipart images (Figure 1). The locations ...

According to a study published June 30 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Accident is something in between — a rare class of object known as a brown dwarf, or a failed star. Brown dwarfs ...

A brown dwarf is an object with a mass between that of a planet and a star. One of the questions scientists want to answer is where the mass limit lies. That question is the subject of debate ...