The nearby star Gliese 229 harbours a ‘brown dwarf’ companion: an object less massive than a star but more massive than a planet. High-resolution observations reveal that it is two objects ...

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Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf star, was first observed in 1995. Brown dwarfs, or "brown dwarves," if you're into J.R.R. Tolkien, are substellar objects with higher mass than the largest ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

(Janella Williams/Penn State University) Some theories suggest that brown dwarf pairs could form within a star's protoplanetary disk that fragments into two seeds of brown dwarfs that become ...

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This illustration provided by Caltech depicts the orbits of brown dwarf twins, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb ...