Birth of an Unusual Planetary System Artist Concept
This artist animation shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disc of planet-building dust. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope spotted such a disc around a surprisingly low-mass brown dwarf, or failed star.
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NASA ID
PIA07335
Date Created
February 8, 2005
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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