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A Very Low Mass Ménage à Trois
The majority of stars like the Sun are found in multiple systems – binaries, triples, quadruples, etc. But when we look at the very lowest mass stars and brown dwarfs, the frequency of binaries… more →
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NASA finds closest star system to the sun in a century
wrote 2 months ago: Posted by Extinction Protocol -NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a p … more →
NASA finds closest star system to the sun in a century
wrote 2 months ago: Posted by Extinction Protocol -NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a p … more →
Buenzli et al. 2012: Vertical Atmosphere Structure in a Variable Brown Dwarf
wrote 3 months ago: Title: Vertical Atmosphere Structure in a Variable Brown Dwarf: Pressure-Dependent Phase Shifts in S … more →
Planets of failed stars
wrote 4 months ago: Infrared Image of 2M1207 and 2M1207b. Credit: ESO A brown dwarf is a failed star. It’s about t … more →
Paddington?
wrote 5 months ago: [Click Image to enlarge]This artist’s impression shows the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J21494 … more →
A Very Low Mass Ménage à Trois
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wrote 9 months ago: The majority of stars like the Sun are found in multiple systems – binaries, triples, quadrupl … more →
What are Brown Dwarfs?
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wrote 10 months ago: Brown Dwarf BROWN DWARFS: stars too small to perform nuclear fusion (no new energy) but too massive … more →
L and T and OBAFGKM and Oh My!
wrote 1 year ago: As regular readers might have noticed, I’ve recently discovered the ‘Mass Effect’ … more →
Planets around stellar remnants II
wrote 1 year ago: The morning of the second day was dedicated to planets orbiting white dwarfs (WDs). Matt Burleigh op … more →
NASA Conference on Near Earth Objects "NEO's" WISE, Planet-X, & Brown Dwarf's
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wrote 1 year ago: For those who are staying abreast of NEO’s you should find this an interesting conference. If … more →
NASA Spots Brown Dwarfs Cooler Than Human Body
wrote 1 year ago: NASA spots chilled-out stars cooler than the human body When you think of stars, you probably imagin … more →
The Not so Hot Stars
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wrote 1 year ago: We usually associate stars with ludicrously high temperatures, indeed the surface of the Sun is arou … more →
Astronomers Have Discovered Six Y-Class Brown Dwarfs Close To Our Sun
wrote 1 year ago: NASA- Brown dwarfs are strange celestial objects. They’re not stars, they’re not planets … more →
'Brown dwarfs' cooler than human body discovered
wrote 1 year ago: For the first time, astronomers have discovered star—like bodies known as ‘brown dwarfs’ with temper … more →
'Brown dwarfs' cooler than human body discovered
wrote 1 year ago: An artist's conception illustrates what brown dwarfs of different types might look like. For th … more →
Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me. Less Tongue, Yo.
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wrote 1 year ago: • Title: The Discovery of Y Dwarfs Using Data from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) • … more →
Hyperactive brown dwarf has a companion, and may be old and heavy to boot
wrote 1 year ago: Stellar activity is typically attributed to magnetic field interactions, but in brown dwarfs this em … more →
First L Dwarf in the Kepler Field
wrote 1 year ago: An image of WISE 1906+4011 from the Kepler Observatory; the green mask marks the location of this fa … more →
Stellar Orbit Dragonfly
wrote 1 year ago: A little astro art for today: as part of my analysis of stellar orbits of ultracool subdwarfs (prese … more →
