Astronomers see Swirling Weather on the Closest Brown Dwarf

Astronomers see Swirling Weather on the Closest Brown Dwarf
By Paul M. Sutter

Brown dwarfs are the weird not-planets but not-stars in the universe, and astronomers have wondered for decades if their atmospheres are striped like Jupiter’s, or splotchy like the sun’s. A team of astronomers based at the University of Arizona used NASA’s TESS Observatory to find the answer: if you saw a brown dwarf for yourself, …

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January 12, 2021 at 08:18AM
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