Brown dwarfs

Articles about the substellar bodies known as brown dwarfs

False-colour near-infrared image of the core of cluster RCW 38 taken with NACO, spanning 1.5 light-years. The insets show a few of the faintest and least massive brown dwarfs (circled) Credit: Koraljka Muzic, University of Lisbon, Portugal / Aleks Scholz, University of St. Andrews, UK / Rainer Schoedel, University of Granada, Spain / Vincent Geers, UKATC Edinburgh, UK / Ray Jayawardhana, York University, Canada / Joana Ascenso, University of Lisbon, University of Porto, Portugal, Lucas Cieza, University Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.

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Aurora discovered over brown dwarf

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Exoplanet Excursions: May 2014