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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The boundary between stars and planets appears increasingly indistinct. Objects such as brown dwarfs, neither fully stars nor ...

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Figure1: Infrared image showing the directly imaged brown dwarf companion J1446B (dot indicated by the arrow). The central red dwarf (J1446) is masked in white during image processing. The scale bar ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky Way. By Katrina Miller Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University ...

It's been pretty quiet around here for auroras lately but not so at the brown dwarf LSRJ1835+3259. Located about 20 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lyra the Harp, it ...

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Schematic of the Wolf 1130ABC triple system, composed of the red dwarf star Wolf 1130A (l), its close and compact white dwarf companion Wolf 1130B (c), and the distant brown dwarf tertiary Wolf 1130C ...

Left: Artistic conception of the longheld astronomical assumption of brown dwarfs resembling Jupiter in appearance, displaying prominent multiple zonal bands and stable vortices similar to the Great ...