Astronomers find out the first known brown dwarf is actually twins

In 1995, a parallel race was on in astronomy — one to find the first planet beyond our own solar system, and the other to find the first brown dwarf, a class of object too heavy to be a planet, but below the mass of a star.  Astronomers ended up publishing the discovery of theContinue reading “Astronomers find out the first known brown dwarf is actually twins”
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