An international team of astronomers reports the detection of two new brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars using NASA's ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

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NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers a ‘star factory’ inside the Flame Nebula, offering new insights into star formation and ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Brown dwarfs are stellar objects that are born ... Fragmentation is highly dependent on the balance between temperature, thermal pressure, and gravity, in addition to other slightly less critical ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps. For Kevin Luhman, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, ...