27 March 2017
Most massive and 'purest' brown dwarf found
...reactions from taking place. It was not previously known if brown dwarfs could form from such primordial gas, and the discovery ...detected, and all six are collectively placed within a ‘halo brown dwarf transition zone’ - a term used to describe a ‘...
01 March 2017
Researchers find first evidence for rocky planet formation around double stars
...this case, the stars in question consist of a white dwarf and a brown dwarf roughly 1000 light-years away in a system called SDSS...first time we've seen asteroid debris and pollution. The brown dwarf was effectively hidden by the dust until we looked ...
19 June 2019
Two new Earth-like planets found around nearby star
... bit less gaseous material would make it a brown dwarf instead of a red dwarf, has been found to house two Earth-like ...part of the Carmenes project. However, like most red and brown dwarfs Teegarden’s star emits most of its energy in the infrared ...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... image of exoplanet 2M1207b (red spot on the lower left) orbiting brown dwarf 2M1207 (centre). This first exoplanet directly imaged, and the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf, was first imaged by the Very Large Telescopein 2004. Even...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
... is suited to finding low-mass planets orbiting beyond the snowline around relatively faint host stars, such as brown dwarfs or M dwarfs. Nonetheless, microlensing is dependent on rare and random events like the passing of one star precisely in front...
04 December 2015
Rare Lithium-Rich Star Discovered
... of internal lithium that is synthesized near the luminosity bump, or that it is caused by the accretion of plants or brown dwarfs. Swallowing a planet could provide a new supply of lithium, however no traces of an orbiting planet or a binary star...
