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El extraño cuerpo hallado pertenece a las llamadas enanas marrones, objetos que no son del todo planetas ni estrellas. Los astrónomos sugieren que podría haber cuerpos más antiguos de este tipo en la galaxia
Citizen scientists help create 'most complete' 3D map of brown dwarfs in Milky Way Telescopes can detect brown dwarfs because they emit heat in the form of infrared light, left over from their formation. Jan 25, 2021 19:28:31 IST Citizen scientists from NASA-funded Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 have now managed to create the 'most complete' three-dimensional map of 525 brown dwarfs in our cosmic Milky Way neighbourhood. The brown dwarfs are objects that are balls of gas not heavy enough to be stars, since they cannot power themselves through nuclear fusion the way stars do, according to a stat...