Two new brown dwarfs discovered with TESS
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...
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Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren't stars, or planets
Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...
High-resolution observations shed more light on a peculiar brown dwarf system
Results of the observational campaign, presented Jan. 23 on the arXiv pre-print server, provide more insights into the nature ...
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Astronomer Mike Brown on the Solar System's Outer Reaches
Analyzing images from a nearby observatory, he and his team identified a number of new Kuiper Belt Objects. Brown found these bodies by scouring a massive number of images taken by a telescope at ...
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Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren't stars, or planets
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 ...