brown dwarfs

Artwork of a lone brown dwarf floating in space. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
If these brown dwarfs spun much faster they'd tear themselves apart
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A billion galaxies lurk in a 10 trillion pixel map of the sky
Phil Plait
Feb 8, 2021
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
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On a brown dwarf 35 light years away, a gale force wind's a-blowin'
Phil Plait
Apr 10, 2020
Artwork depicting a brown dwarf and its magnetic field. Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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A rare find: An eclipsing binary brown dwarf in a triple brown dwarf system
Phil Plait
Mar 10, 2020
Artwork depicting a binary brown dwarf system. Credit: Janella Williams, Penn State University
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A very dense oasis in the brown dwarf desert
Phil Plait
Aug 6, 2019
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Are we overlooking a lot of nearby brown dwarfs?
Phil Plait
Apr 17, 2018
Artist drawing of a solitary brown dwarf in space, glowing feebly in visible light. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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100 billion brown dwarfs lurk in the galaxy
Phil Plait
Jul 27, 2017
Artist’s concept of a lone brown dwarf
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'Citizen scientists' find a nearby brown dwarf
Phil Plait
Jul 21, 2017
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Amazing Hubble astrovideo: Two brown dwarfs dance across the sky
Phil Plait
Jun 12, 2017
actual observations of Luhman 16 showing the motion
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