The best look yet at mysterious brown dwarfs, strange cosmic oddities that blur the lines between stars and planets, now has revealed just how large and cold they really are. The weird 'failed stars' only get as hot as a kitchen oven.
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Brown Dwarfs: Strange 'Failed Stars' Only as Hot As Your Oven
The best look yet at mysterious brown dwarfs, strange cosmic oddities that blur the lines between stars and planets, now has revealed just how large and cold they really are. The weird 'failed stars' only get as hot as a kitchen oven.
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Star is discovered to be a close neighbor of the Sun and the coldest of its kind
A 'brown dwarf' star that appears to be the coldest of its kind -- as frosty as Earth's North Pole -- has been discovered by astronomers. The object's distance at 7.2 light-years away, making it the fourth closest system to our Sun.
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Astronomer Finds a Brown Dwarf Literally as Cold as Ice… and It’s Right Next Door
Stars are hot, right? You might think that’s one of their defining characteristics. But that’s not entirely true. Brown dwarfs are star-like objects that are more massive than planets, but not quite massive enough to ignite sustained fusion in their cores. Hydrogen fusion is what powers the Sun
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