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  1. Brown dwarf - Wikipedia

    • 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 mass is approximately 13 to 80 times that of Jupiter (MJ) —not big enough to sustain nuclear fusion of ordinary hydrogen ( H) into helium in their cores, but massive enough to emit some light and heat from the fusi… See more

    History

    The objects now called "brown dwarfs" were theorized by Shiv S. Kumar in the 1960s to exist and were originally … See more

    Theory

    The standard mechanism for star birth is through the gravitational collapse of a cold interstellar cloud of gas and dust. As the cloud contracts, it heats due to the Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism. Early in the process th… See more

    Observations

    These are brown dwarfs with a spectral class of M5.5 or later; they are also called late-M dwarfs. Some scientists regard them as red dwarfs. All brown dwarfs with spectral type M are young objects, such as Teide 1, … See more

     
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