Collecting Brown Dwarfs in the Night Sky
The green dot in the middle of this image might look like an emerald amidst glittering diamonds, but is a dim star belonging to a class called brown dwarfs; it is the first ultra-cool brown dwarf discovered by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
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PIA13444
Date Created
November 9, 2010
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JPL
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