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A newly discovered binary system, 1400 light-years away, comprises a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf (WD 0032-317). The brown dwarf's extreme temperature (approximately 7,700°C) is primarily due to ...

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After the sun finally dies, billions of years in the future, Earth too will meet a grisly end. There are several ways that our home planet may be destroyed after the sun dies, possibly being swallowed ...

Astronomers recently spotted one of the most massive brown dwarfs known, an object between 75 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter with a beyond-scalding dayside temperature of 8,000 K (13,940° Fahrenheit ...

Astronomers have imaged a very young brown dwarf, or failed star, in a tight orbit around a young nearby sun-like star. An international team led by University of Hawaii astronomers Beth Biller and ...

The Sun will die in about five billion years, swelling into a Red Giant before leaving a dense white dwarf behind. Although ...