Twirling pair Artist’s impression of Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb orbiting each other to create Gliese 229B. The brown dwarf pair orbit a cool M-dwarf star (shown in the distance) every 250 years.

Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their own gravity, but they never become dense and hot ...

The brown dwarf pair is located 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

Binary stars are known to transfer mass to one another. In extreme cases, mass transfer can even cause a supernova explosion. That happens when a white dwarf draws matter from a companion. But ...

At a recent annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)—the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country—many cosmic objects got their moment to shine. In the case of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class of ...