WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth.

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This illustration provided by Caltech depicts the orbits of brown dwarf twins, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb ...

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This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fin ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...

It's twins! Mystery of famed brown dwarf solved Astronomers have discovered that a well-studied brown dwarf is in fact two that are orbiting closely around each other Date: October 16, 2024 Source ...

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