"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a ...
"The new brown dwarfs are the least massive known brown dwarfs. They place a new constraint on the lowest mass at which brown dwarfs exist." Astronomers have discovered a batch of nine new brown ...
A rare quadruple star system that is the first of its kind to be discovered by astronomers could help better understand so-called "failed stars" or brown dwarfs. These celestial bodies get their ...
Our parochial view of planets orbiting a central star — so familiar because it is the layout seen in the solar system — could be irrevocably shattered by new research that suggests giant, ...
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