Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Their...
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is a list of brown dwarfs. These are objects that have masses between heavy gas giants and low-mass stars. The first isolated brown dwarf discovered was...
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A sub-brown dwarf or planetary-mass brown dwarf is an astronomical object that formed in the same manner as stars and brown dwarfs (i.e. through the collapse...
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These red dwarfs have spectral types of L0 to L2. There is some overlap with the properties of brown dwarfs, since the most massive brown dwarfs at lower...
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dwarfs is one observational limit on the universe's age. The name "black dwarf" has also been applied to hypothetical late-stage cooled brown dwarfs –...
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The brown-dwarf desert is a theorized range of orbits around a star within which brown dwarfs are unlikely to be found as companion objects. This is usually...
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A white dwarf is a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. A white dwarf is very dense: its mass is comparable to the Sun's...
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Planetary-mass object (section Sub-brown dwarfs)
planets) or formed through cloud-collapse rather than accretion (sub-brown dwarfs). While the term technically includes exoplanets and other objects, it...
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A dwarf star is a star of relatively small size and low luminosity. Most main sequence stars are dwarf stars. The meaning of the word "dwarf" was later...
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List of nearest stars (redirect from List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs)
This list covers all known stars, white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, and sub-brown dwarfs within 20 light-years (6.13 parsecs) of the Sun. So far, 131 such objects...
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brown dwarfs would have ceased fusion long before their discovery. Binary stars and other multiple-star formations are common, and many brown dwarfs orbit...
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Nine likeliest dwarf planets and dates of discovery A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough...
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"Yellow" dwarfs such as the Sun are white, "red" dwarfs are a deep shade of yellow/orange, and "brown" dwarfs do not literally appear brown, but hypothetically...
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fusion of deuterium), it is too massive to be a planet and might be a brown dwarf. Known orbital times for exoplanets vary from less than an hour (for...
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of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to any star or brown dwarf. Rogue planets may originate from planetary systems in which they are...
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J1407b is a substellar object, either a free-floating planet or brown dwarf, with a massive circumplanetary disk or ring system. It was first detected...
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stellar scale. Then there is the fact that these objects might be brown dwarfs, sub-brown dwarfs, or not exist at all. Because of this, this list only cites...
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This is a list of stars, neutron stars, white dwarfs and brown dwarfs which are the least voluminous known (the smallest stars by volume). This is a list...
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Perovskite (section In stars and brown dwarfs)
occurs in carbonatite near Schelingen, Kaiserstuhl, Germany. In stars and brown dwarfs the formation of perovskite grains is responsible for the depletion of...
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generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets by the most...
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hydrogen to begin. These are known as brown dwarfs. The International Astronomical Union defines brown dwarfs as stars massive enough to fuse deuterium...
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WD 0137−349 (category Brown dwarfs)
dwarf with a brown dwarf in orbit around it, and is one of the few systems composed of a white dwarf and an associated brown dwarf. The brown dwarf orbits...
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List of dwarf planets List of possible dwarf planets Lists of planets List of nearest exoplanets List of largest exoplanets List of brown dwarfs List of...
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titleholders of being the red dwarf with the smallest volume, and its succession over time. List of least massive stars List of brown dwarfs Lists of stars Croswell...
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CWISE J1249+3621 (category L-type brown dwarfs)
Venatici. It has an L spectral type and is either a low-mass red dwarf or a high-mass brown dwarf. It has a speed of 456±27 km/s in the galactic rest frame,...
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Gliese 229 (category T-type brown dwarfs)
as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a binary system composed of a red dwarf and the second brown dwarf seen by astronomers, 18.8 light years away in the constellation...
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List of star systems within 40–45 light-years List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs Winters, Jennifer G.; Sevrinsky, R. Andrew; Jao, Wei-Chun; Henry, Todd...
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variable stars List of O-type stars List of blue straggler stars List of brown dwarfs List of collapsars (black holes) List of notable variable stars List...
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HD 19467 (category Brown dwarfs)
HD 19467 is a star with an orbiting brown dwarf companion in the equatorial constellation of Eridanus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.97, which...
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Extraterrestrial atmosphere (section Brown dwarfs)
"Brown Dwarf - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2023-10-16. The brown dwarfs are distinguished from white dwarfs first...
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