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A year in a day: Ultracool dwarf star system breaks record

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Thanks to the vast distances between objects in our galaxy, astronomers often have to wait months or years to observe how celestial bodies like stars and planets move around each other. Recently though, astrophysicists at Northwestern University and th… Continue reading A year in a day: Ultracool dwarf star system breaks record→

Radio telescope detects a super-planet for the first time

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Scientists in Europe and Hawaii have scored a world’s first by detecting a “super-planet,” also known as a cold brown dwarf or a failed star, using a radio telescope. Located 212 light-years away in the constellation of Hercules, the detection of BDR J… Continue reading Radio telescope detects a super-planet for the first time→

“Astronomers’ sunglasses” spot stripy clouds in brown dwarf atmosphere

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Using polarized light, astronomers have detected signs of cloud bands in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf far beyond the solar system. It turns out that these gassy giants have a similar appearance to Jupiter, and the same kind of wild weather.Continue … Continue reading “Astronomers’ sunglasses” spot stripy clouds in brown dwarf atmosphere→