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Liz Young Planet GETTY

Stars that fail at being stars are not just posers

Not everyone can be a star.
By Elizabeth Rayne | 
4 months ago
Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dozens of rogue planets found in a nearby cosmic nursery

Starless planets wander the galaxy in the dark.
By Phil Plait | 
6 months ago
Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

An ancient space object is fast, faint, and there may be billions more like it

By Phil Plait | 
10 months ago
Philip Plait Bad Astronomy Red Giant Dust Cloud

First a red giant cooks its planets, then it turns them into mini-stars

By Phil Plait | 
11 months ago
Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Dark matter might heat exoplanets enough to make them glow

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago

If these brown dwarfs spun much faster they'd tear themselves apart

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
A small group of galaxies called the Copeland Septet, seen in the DESI Legacy Sky Surveys. Credit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys/LBNL/DOE & KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA

A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
Artwork depicting a brown dwarf and its magnetic field. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF

On a brown dwarf 35 light years away, a gale force wind's a-blowin'

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Artwork depicting a binary brown dwarf system. Credit: Janella Williams, Penn State University

A rare find: An eclipsing binary brown dwarf in a triple brown dwarf system

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
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A very dense oasis in the brown dwarf desert

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
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