Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Planet-Like Object Found Circling a Brown Dwarf

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100409144354.htm

Kamen Todorov of Penn State University and co-investigators used the keen eyesight of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory to directly image the companion of the brown dwarf, which was uncovered in a survey of 32 young brown dwarfs in the Taurus star-forming region. Brown dwarfs are objects that typically are tens of times the mass of Jupiter and are too small to sustain nuclear fusion to shine as stars do.

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