Apparently Even the Smallest Stars Get Their Own Planets
Source: European Southern Observatory Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) have announced the discovery of a disc of millimeter sized material encircling a brown dwarf star. Of insufficient mass to generate hydrogen fusion like main sequence stars such as our own sun, brown dwarfs, classified as sub-stellar objects, occupy an unusual position in between the largest plants and the smallest true […]
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