“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fin ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (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.

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...

Now, a Caltech-led international team of astronomers has at last solved that mystery: The brown dwarf is actually a pair of tight-knit brown dwarfs, weighing about 38 and 34 times the mass of ...

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

A "serpentine, cherry-laurel maze" in Cornwall has been named among the most impressive in the UK. Glendurgan Garden Maze, which is located close to Falmouth, was featured alongside six others in a ...

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