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Beyond Earth, there are worlds with unique cloud properties. Among them are brown dwarfs where clouds are made up of sand.

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A new study led by researchers at Western University provides critical information on sand clouds observed in distant planets and helps affirm a larger theory of how planetary atmospheres work.Most clouds on Earth are made of water, while the top of

Dozens of newly examined brown dwarfs have clouds of silicates, confirming an old theory and revealing how these failed stars live.

A new study using archival observations by the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope found a common trait among distant worlds where the exotic clouds form.

VIDEO: CosmoView Episode 25: Caught Speeding: Clocking the Fastest-Spinning Brown Dwarfs view more  Credit: Images and Videos: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva, P. Marenfeld, NASA/JPL-Caltech, R. Hurt (IPAC). Music: zero-project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr). Astronomers at Western University have discovered the most rapidly rotating brown dwarfs known. They found three brown dwarfs that each complete a full rotation roughly once every hour. That rat...