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ssc2020-09a 04.09.20 Windy Brown DwarfFor the first time, scientists have directly measured wind speed on a brown dwarf, pictured here in an illustration. ... view image |
sig16-20a 11.10.16 Brown Dwarf SystemThis illustration depicts a newly discovered brown dwarf, an object that weighs in somewhere between our solar system... view image |
sig16-20 11.10.16 Brown Dwarf Microlensing IllustrationThis illustration depicts a newly discovered brown dwarf, an object that weighs in somewhere between our solar system... view image |
sig16-19 11.10.16 Brown Dwarf Microlensing DiagramTwo space-based telescopes teamed up with ground-based observatories to observe a microlensing event caused by a brow... view image |
ssc2014-03a 04.25.14 Cold and Quick: a Fast-Moving Brown DwarfThis 4-panel image shows the coldest brown dwarf yet seen, and the fourth closest system to our sun. Called WISE J085... view image |
ssc2014-03b 04.25.14 Cold and Close Celestial OrbThis artist's conception shows the object named WISE J085510.83-071442.5, the coldest known brown dwarf. view image |
sig14-001 01.07.14 This Just In: Storms Expected on Brown DwarfsThis artist's concept shows what the weather might look like on cool star-like bodies known as brown dwarfs. view image |
sig13-008 09.05.13 Free-floating Failed StarThis artist's conception portrays a free-floating brown dwarf, or failed star. view image |
sig13-009 09.05.13 Brown Dwarf BackyardigansThe locations of brown dwarfs discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, and mapped by NASA's... view image |
ssc2013-01c 01.08.13 Forecast for Exotic WeatherThis artist's conception illustrates the brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026. view image |
sig10-008 06.24.10 Coolest Orbs on the BlockThis artist's conception shows simulated data predicting the hundreds of failed stars, or brown dwarfs, that NASA's W... view image |
sig10-007 06.24.10 Brown Dwarf as Cool as a Stellar CucumberThis image shows what astronomers think is one of the coldest brown dwarfs discovered so far (red dot in middle of fr... view image |
ssc2009-21a 11.23.09 Twin Brown Dwarfs Wrapped in a BlanketThis image shows two young brown dwarfs, objects that fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temp... view image |
ssc2008-22a 12.10.08 Not-So-Bright BulbsThis artist's concept shows the dimmest star-like bodies currently knowntwin brown dwarfs referred to as 2M 0939. view image |
sig06-022 09.18.06 Brown Dwarf CompanionThis is an artist's concept of the star HD 3651 as it is orbited by a close-in Saturn-mass planetary companion and th... view image |
sig06-001 01.10.06 Circumbinary DiskThis artist concept shows a debris disk in a cataclysmic variable system which consists of a highly magnetic white dw... view image |
sig05-022 11.29.05 Itsy Bitsy Solar SystemThis artist's conception compares a hypothetical solar system centered around a tiny "sun" (top) to a known solar sys... view image |
ssc2005-21b 10.20.05 Sowing the Seeds of Planets?This artist's concept shows microscopic crystals in the dusty disk surrounding a brown dwarf, or "failed star." The c... view image |
ssc2005-21a 10.20.05 Planet Clumps and Crystals Around Brown DwarfsThis graph of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the spectra (middle four lines) of dusty disks around fo... view image |
ssc2005-06b 02.07.05 Mini Solar System in the MakingA brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disk of planet-building dust. The brown dwarf, called OTS 44, is only 15 times... view image |
ssc2005-06c 02.07.05 'Mini-Me' Solar SystemThis artist's conception shows the relative size of a hypothetical brown dwarf-planetary system (below) compared to o... view image |
ssc2005-06a 07.02.04 Planetary Building Blocks Found in Surprising PlaceThis graph of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that an extraordinarily low-mass brown dwarf, or "failed... view image |
sig00_star_planet_seq_vis 07.01.03 Sequence of Stars and Planets in Visible LightAn artist's rendition comparing brown dwarfs to stars and planets on the same scale. On the far left is the limb of t... view image |
sig00_star_planet_seq_ir 01.01.03 Sequence of Astronomical Objects in Infrared LightThis figure shows an artist's rendition comparing brown dwarfs to stars and planets. All objects are plotted to the s... view image |
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