Aurora on brown dwarf flummoxes astronomers
The James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers to see an aurora on a cold, lonely brown dwarf – and they’re puzzled.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers to see an aurora on a cold, lonely brown dwarf – and they’re puzzled.
The brown dwarf is an isolated object in space with no nearby star to create an aurora.
Astronomers are trying to figure out how an isolated brown dwarf could produce such a phenomenon.
The James Webb Space Telescope has made a massive discovery, an isolated brown dwarf in space, W1935, emanating infrared emissions made up of methane suggesting a possible existence of aurora...
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2024 - Astronomers using NASA's 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