Surprise! When a brown dwarf is actually a planetary mass object

Sometimes a brown dwarf is actually a planet — or planet-like anyway. A team discovered that what astronomers had previously thought was one of the closest brown dwarfs to our own Sun is in fact a planetary mass object.

(via WSJ)


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