The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 light-years away. Credit: Space.com | footage: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and K ...

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Astronomers have discovered a batch of nine new brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars," including the two smallest examples of these curious celestial objects ever seen. The new find could help ...

Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The insets show expanded images of two faint proplyds from the Hubble Space ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In our Milky Way galaxy, the most common type of star is the small, cool star known as an M dwarf, or red dwarf. They make up more ...

Currently, only about 1% of stars host giant planets or brown dwarfs that our telescopes can photograph directly. This scarcity raises a question: how can we uncover these so discreet objects, drowned ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is making it possible to detect more celestial objects we previously wouldn't be able to, including ones that can further our knowledge on how our universe began. A team ...

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