Two new brown dwarfs discovered with TESS
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...
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James Webb Space Telescope investigates the origins of 'failed stars' in the Flame Nebula
"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...
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James Webb Space Telescope investigates the origins of 'failed stars' in the Flame Nebula
astronomers have for the first time been able to probe up to and beyond the brown dwarf mass limit. "If that limit is real," Meyer continued, "there really shouldn’t be any one-Jupiter-mass ...
'1,400 light-years away': NASA’s James Webb Telescope discovers mysterious free-floating objects in space
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a population of free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, a ...
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New James Webb telescope image is a 'quantum leap' for astronomy
Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...
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Webb telescope spots curious objects that aren't stars, or planets
"If that limit is real, there really shouldn’t be any one-Jupiter-mass objects free ... They aren't easy to find: Lower-mass objects like brown dwarfs are extremely faint to telescopes, as ...
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James Webb discovers a ‘star factory’ — It’s inside a monster nebula
NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers a ‘star factory’ inside the Flame Nebula, offering new insights into star formation and ...
Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...