Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

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There's a whole slew of objects that astronomers aren't sure whether to classify as "failed stars" or "overgrown planets." ...

An artist’s impression of the stellar dimming event caused by a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter with massive rings (foreground) forming an opaque “saucer” through which some light from the star ...

Astronomers have found evidence for a striped pattern of clouds on the brown dwarf Luhman 16A, illustrated here. The red object in the background is Luhman 16B, the partner brown dwarf to Luhman 16A.

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Scientists investigating the puzzling, long-lasting, and extreme dimming of a distant star have narrowed the suspects down to either a so-called "failed star" brown dwarf or a truly massive ...

"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – surrounded by a vast and dense ring system." When you purchase through links ...