The Curious Case of the Mysterious Over-Luminous Brown Dwarf
Today’s paper explores different possibilities causing the brown dwarf CWW 89Ab to be overly bright.
Not Quite a Star, Not Quite a Planet: A Planetary-Mass Object in AB Dor
In or out? Today’s paper explores whether or not an unusual object belongs to the AB Doradus moving group—and what it means if it does.
All spun up
A variety of mechanisms cause stars to experience spin evolution. Can we learn about planet formation by pushing spin measurements down to substellar masses?
And now, the smallest star ever.
Read on to learn more about the discovery of the smallest star ever seen.
Citizen scientists in search of failed stars
Brown dwarfs are objects below the mass limit to become a star. It’s been less than 20 years since we’ve detected the first one. Can citizen science help us increase our numbers?
Image credits: R. Hurt/NASA
Auroral Displays at Brown Dwarfs
Powerful auroras have been detected at a nearby brown dwarf. Today we’ll be discussing this discovery, which is the first instance of auroras found outside of the solar system.