Brown Dwarfs
The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million…
An international team of researchers has discovered that previously observed variations in brightness of a free-floating planetary-mass object known as…
NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft re-entered and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday night, as…
As a distant stargazer and a neighborhood watchdog, NASA's WISE/NEOWISE spacecraft has scanned the sky around us – both far…
To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won’t work. Scientists need to use many telescopes…
It takes two to tango, but in the case of brown dwarfs that were once paired as binary systems, that…
This is an artist's concept of a brown dwarf. This class of object is more massive than Jupiter (and did…
Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a…
Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough…
