Tag: Brown Dwarf

The Spanish-Mexican team has found that the boundary between those objects which destroy lithium and those which preserve it lies at 51.5 times the mass of Jupiter. The brown dwarf Reid 1B is a major deposti fo lithium which will never be destroyed. Planets such as Jupiter and the Earth are even less massive and do not destroy their lithium. The Sun has destroyed all the lithium that was in its nucleus and preserves some in its upper layers, which are slowly mixing with its interior. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)

Astronomers Discover Ancient Brown Dwarf With Lithium Deposits Intact

MessageToEagle.com | November 25, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Brown dwarfs, also known as “coffee colored dwarfs” or “failed stars” are the natural link between stars and planets. They are more massive

Artist's impression of the discovery dubbed, Elegast. Credit: ASTRON / Danielle Futselaar

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Cold Faint “Super Planet” Discovered For The First Time Through Radio Telescope

MessageToEagle.com | November 14, 2020

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – For the first time, astronomers have used observations from a radio telescope and a pair of observatories on Maunakea to discover and

Astronomers have found evidence for a striped pattern of clouds on the brown dwarf called Luhman 16A, as illustrated here in this artist's concept. The bands of clouds were inferred using a technique called polarimetry, in which polarized light is measured from an astrophysical object much like polarized sunglasses are used to block out glare. This is the first time that polarimetry has been used to measure cloud patterns on a brown dwarf. The red object in the background is Luhman 16B, the partner brown dwarf to Luhman 16A. Together, this pair is the closest brown dwarf system to Earth at 6.5 light-years away. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

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Jupiter-Like Cloud Bands Are Also Seen On Closest Brown Dwarf – Luhman 16A

MessageToEagle.com | May 5, 2020

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The closest known brown dwarf, Luhman 16A, shows signs of cloud bands similar to those seen on Jupiter and Saturn. In their

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How We Managed What Einstein Thought Was Impossible – And Used His Theory To Weigh A Star

MessageToEagle | June 7, 2017

MessageToEagle.com – If you are looking at a glass lens you will not see the lens itself, but rather notice objects behind it being displaced and distorted. Gravitation has

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Auroras On Alien Worlds Can Be Stunningly Beautiful

MessageToEagle | November 15, 2015

First version of this article was originally published on January 16, 2012 MessageToEagle.com – Auroras on Earth are stunning to watch, but have you ever wondered what they