Study of ‘polluted’ white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow together
A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of…
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Sand clouds are common in atmospheres of brown dwarfs
Clouds of sand can condense, grow and disappear in some extraterrestrial atmospheres. A new look at old data shows that clouds made of hot silicate…
Ground-breaking number of brown dwarfs discovered — ScienceDaily
Brown dwarfs are mysterious astronomical objects that fill the gap between the heaviest planets and the lightest stars, with a mix of stellar and planetary…
Researchers map the movement of white dwarfs of the Milky Way
White dwarfs were once normal stars similar to the Sun but then collapsed after exhausting all their fuel. These interstellar remnants have historically been…
Pair of brown dwarfs orbit each other 12 billion miles apart
It’s not uncommon for stars to be found in binary pairs, where two stars are gravitationally bound together and orbit each other. Sometimes, you even…