NASA's Webb identifies tiniest free-floating : vimarsana.com

<p>Using NASA&rsquo;s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf with only three to four times the mass of Jupiter. A paper describing the observations appeared today (Dec. 13) in the&nbsp;<a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad00b7">Astronomical Journal</a>.</p>

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