Saturday Citations: Brown dwarf actually brown dwarfs; the adaptability of ice-age humans; archaeologists excited Earth microquasar that sheds new light on sources of relativistic outflows. Doctors reported finding a triphallic gentleman. And neuroscientists reported on modest cognitive boosts from short (or ... 10/19/2024 - 1:35 am | View Link
3 decades later, 1st brown dwarf ever found offers surprise WASHINGTON >> 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. But it turns out ... 10/18/2024 - 11:25 am | View Link
Brown Dwarf Scientists Studied for Decades Has a Twin Scientists have been observing a brown dwarf for decades, and now they have discovered that it is actually two dwarfs circling each other. 10/18/2024 - 10:00 am | View Link
Three decades later, first brown dwarf ever found offers a surprise 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. But it turns out that was not ... 10/18/2024 - 7:21 am | View Link
Decades-Old Mystery Solved as Gliese 229B Is Revealed as a Binary System Astronomers have made a surprising discovery about Gliese 229B, a well-known brown dwarf first identified nearly 30 years ago. Once considered a single "failed star," scientists have now revealed that ... 10/17/2024 - 1:15 am | View Link