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 ...

“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 ...

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.

It's twins! Mystery of famed brown dwarf solved Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other Date: October 16, 2024 Source ...

"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 ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

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 ...

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Due to return for Untitled three-part special Series IV, Episode 1 repeated Monday 18th November at 1am on U&Dave Streaming rank this week: 172 The crew of the mining space ship Red Dwarf are wiped ...

The Emmy-winning comedy returns for more hilarious intergalactic adventures. This season sees the gang stranded in a scientific research centre populated by several infamous figures from history ...