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Astronomers have discovered a rare hypervelocity L subdwarf star racing through the Milky Way. More remarkably, this star may be on a trajectory that causes it to leave the Milky Way altogether.

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2024 - Astronomers using NASAs James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy i

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made a surprising observation, detecting aurorae on a cold, lonely brown dwarf known as W1935.

<p>Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a <a href="https://webbtelescope.org/glossary.html#h3-CK-3638b3e7-aa22-480f-83ea-d22b13081886" target="_blank">brown dwarf</a> (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared <a href="https://webbtelescope.org/glossary.html#h3-CK-3247f39b-978f-4e47-a536-14fbd3d857b1" target="_blank">emission</a>&am...

Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes.

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2023 - Astronomers found what looks like a glowing cloud of dust from a massive planetary pile-up-and NASA volunteers helped make the discovery! A recent paper in Nature describes how an international grou

Washington DC (SPX) Nov 08, 2023 - NASAs Science Mission Directorate seeks knowledge and answers to profound questions that impact all people. Through competitions, challenges, crowdsourcing, and citizen science activities, NASA col

NASA’s Science Mission Directorate seeks knowledge and answers to profound questions that impact all people. Through competitions, challenges, crowdsourcing,

Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbours is a new project where citizen scientists can search for brown dwarfs - balls of gas that never got massive enough to become stars.

While measuring the surface temperature of the brown dwarf, researchers find that it was 7,700 Degree Celsius