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Brown Dwarf

We have discovered a brown dwarf colder than ice
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Associate Professor Kevin Luhman of Penn State University has discovered the coldest brown dwarf yet using the NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. A brown dwarf is a massive gaseous object which is on the low end of the stellar mass and temperature scale. There’s an heated (pardon the pun) debate regarding the classifications of brown […]

29 April 2014
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