| So many, perhaps most, of these so-called planetary systems may in fact be stellar or brown dwarf binaries. |
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| The red object appears to be a planet orbiting the brighter brown dwarf star, seen here as blue-white. |
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| If the candidate planet does orbit the brown dwarf, then the pair will move across the sky together. |
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| Could it be an exoplanet in orbit around that young brown dwarf object at a projected distance of about 8,250 million km? |
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| Only a brown dwarf, similar to the weakest currently observed with a magnitude of 18-19, could be still undetected. |
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| On June 14, the CoRoT team announces the discovery of a brown dwarf and six new exoplanets, with very different characteristics. |
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| With 20 Jupiter masses CoRoT-Exo-3b opens up the discussion whether to categorize it as a planet or a brown dwarf. |
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| Almost the size of a brown dwarf star, it was a gas giant planet that had been wandering loose in interstellar space, and our star had attracted it. |
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| It's alleged the domestic brown dwarf pig had its snout taped shut to keep it quiet. |
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| Besides size, the main difference between a brown dwarf and a planet is their formation. |
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| Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto, whose study of brown dwarf stars and giant planets has provided new clues about how stars and planets, including our solar system, are formed. |
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| In 1994, astronomers detected a companion object, Gliese 229b, which turned out to be a brown dwarf. Indeed it was the first such object ever to be observed directly. |
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| Today, the coolest known starlike orb is a brown dwarf discovered last year. |
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| Exoplanets are the distant offspring of a star beyond our sun, a brown dwarf, or a stellar corpse. |
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| But scientists estimate it is probably a brown dwarf rather than a planet since brown dwarfs are known to be fairly common. |
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| Spitzer's infrared observations helped determine the frosty temperature of the brown dwarf. |
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| Scattered among the galaxy are brown dwarf stars, capable of producing energy to heat colonizing stations and power starships. |
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| The first brown dwarf was only confirmed by astronomers just 20 years ago. |
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| Hence, Gliese 229 B was the first object widely accepted as a brown dwarf. |
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| This object, however, was later accepted as the first binary brown dwarf. |
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| For that reason, it is classified as a brown dwarf Intermediate in nature between planets and stars, brown dwarfs are much rarer than planets, which makes this discovery all the more exciting. |
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