Quasi-Planets Called JuMBOs Are Bopping Around in Space
A team of astronomers have detected over 500 planet-like objects in the inner Orion Nebula and the Trapezium Cluster that they believe could shake up the very definition of a…
Astronomers Spot a Massive Brown Dwarf Hotter Than the Sun
Astronomers recently spotted one of the most massive brown dwarfs known, an object between 75 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter with a beyond-scalding dayside temperature of 8,000 K…
Two-Faced: Wacky White Dwarf Keeps Its Surface Gases Separate
Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar remnant that keeps its light elements separate, in a strange first. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer Off English…
Citizen scientist discovers a raft of ultracool binary stars
It’s not only professional astronomers who make amazing discoveries about space — sometimes enthusiastic amateurs make impressive scientific discoveries too.
Pair of brown dwarfs orbit each other 12 billion miles apart
Astronomers have spotted a pair of brown dwarfs, which are objects in between planets and stars, which have the widest separation found to date.
These three planets spin so fast that they’re about to tear themselves apart
Astronomers have identified three brown dwarfs which are spinning ten times as fast as a typical planet, so fast that they are on the verge of being torn apart.