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Brown dwarfs are more massive than planets but not quite as massive as stars. Generally speaking, they have between...
The faster a brown dwarf spins, the narrower the different-colored atmospheric bands on it likely become, as shown...
All spinning objects, from carousels to planets, generate centripetal force. If a planet rotates too fast, that...
This artist's concept shows what the weather might look like on cool star-like bodies known as brown dwarfs. These...
This artist's concept animation shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen on Neptune...
This artist's concept shows an auroral display on a brown dwarf. If you could see an aurora on a brown dwarf, it...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will uncover many failed stars, or brown dwarfs, in infrared light. This...
The green dot in the middle of this image might look like an emerald amidst glittering diamonds, but is a dim star...
The locations of brown dwarfs discovered by NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, and mapped by NASA...
This graph shows the brightness variations of the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026 measured simultaneously by...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows two young brown dwarfs, objects that fall somewhere between...
For the first time, two space-based telescopes have teamed up with ground-based observatories to observe a...
JANUARY 8, 2013: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a...
This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, an object that is at least 13 times the mass of Jupiter but not massive...
This frame from an animation shows the coldest brown dwarf yet seen, and the fourth closest system to our sun....
This artist illustration shows the atmosphere of a brown dwarf called 2MASSJ22282889-431026, which was observed...
This artist conception based on data from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer illustrates what brown dwarfs of...
This image shows brown dwarf HIP 79124 B, located 23 times as far from its host star as Earth is from the sun. The...
A young, free-floating world sits alone in space in this illustration. The object, called WISEA J114724.10-204021.3,...
This is an illustration of a planet that is four times the mass of Jupiter and orbits 5 billion miles from a...
NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has uncovered the coldest brown dwarf known so far green dot in very center...
Astronomers think there are roughly as many brown dwarfs as regular stars like our sun, but brown dwarfs are often...
This artist animation shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disc of planet-building dust. NASA Spitzer Space...
This artist conception shows the object named WISE J085510.83-071442.5, the coldest known brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs...