Brown dwarfs blur the lines between stars and planets. Brown dwarfs are curious celestial bodies that appear to straddle the mass divide between stars and planets. Often referred to as "failed ...
But what exactly is this thing? It's not a comet or an asteroid. Scientists say it could be a low-mass star or a brown dwarf, ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
A diagram showing a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass star and the sun. (Image credit: NASA) The brown dwarfs referenced by Parker are objects that form like stars, but during ...
In July this year, it observed two brown dwarfs, small stars about 70 times the size of Jupiter and the closest brown dwarfs to the solar system. Brown dwarfs are intermediate objects in space ...
These cool, dim stars are known as brown dwarfs or 'failed stars.' But even the mass of a brown dwarf isn't enough to overcome the Coulomb barrier and start up stellar fusion. Fusion takes so much ...
One of the most stunning examples of a mysterious object in our known universe is CWISE J1249. It streaks through space at a ...
The fastest-spinning white dwarf ever discovered is a shrinking cosmic vampire feasting on a stellar companion. A feeding ...
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS), an international team ...
The first brown dwarfs outside the Milky Way captured by ... Around 168,000 years ago, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded in a spectacular Type II supernova. The light from this event ...