A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

An image displaying the relative size of a typical brown dwarf star. In the instance of the star in this study, the brown dwarf is smaller than Jupiter (between 0.65 and 0.95 its radius ...

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two new brown dwarfs, TOI-4776 b and TOI-5422 b, have been discovered using TESS. TOI-4776 b is about 32 times the mass of Jupiter, orbits an F-type star every ...

More information: Elina Y. Zhang et al, An Oasis in the Brown Dwarf Desert: Confirmation of Two Low-mass Transiting Brown ...