WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener. But it ...

It’s not uncommon for stars to be found in binary pairs, where two stars are gravitationally bound together and orbit each other. Sometimes, you even find triple star systems with three stars bound ...

Pity the brown dwarf. It's too large to be a planet, but too small to be a star. Although these "failed stars" are neither fish nor fowl, they play an important role in the cosmic scheme of things.

An international team, led by the UNIGE, has investigated five astronomical objects that could help us understand the mysterious nature of brown dwarfs Brown dwarfs are astronomical objects with ...

A newly discovered binary system, 1400 light-years away, comprises a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf (WD 0032-317). The brown dwarf's extreme temperature (approximately 7,700°C) is primarily due to ...

This illustration provided by Caltech depicts the orbits of brown dwarf twins, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb, with a separation only 16 times larger than the distance between Earth and the Moon. The ...

A team of astronomers have captured the first direct image of a brown dwarf orbiting a star. The research was led by the Astrobiology Center of the National Institute of Natural Sciences (NINS) and ...

Brown dwarfs have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust. Scientists recently realized these giant clouds can move and thicken or thin ...

A brown dwarf that has been nicknamed "The Accident" has been discovered by a citizen scientist thanks to an online program he made himself. Dan Caselden made the discovery using data from the ...

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It's impossible to tell for sure how many stars there are in the Universe for the simplest reason that it's impossible to see them all, let alone count them. Some estimates, based on, well, more or ...

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have discovered two new brown dwarfs at estimated distances of only 15 and 18 light-years from the Sun. For comparison: The next ...