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Double header: Firsts for brown dwarf, cosmic filament

Posted on 3:51 am, Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Tags: , ,

MEDIA RELEASE Two teams of scientists score big with Keck Observatory this week. The first group discovered the first known cosmic web filament while the second directly imaged a brown dwarf for the first time. Rare Brown Dwarf Discovery Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research A team of researchers led by Justin R. Crepp, the […]

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Hawaii telescopes spy new candidate for coldest 'star'

Hawaii telescopes spy new candidate for coldest ‘star’

Posted on 9:25 am, Thursday, March 24, 2011. Tags: , , , ,

MEDIA RELEASE There is a new candidate for coldest known star: a brown dwarf with about the same temperature as a hot cup of coffee. That’s cool enough to begin crossing the blurry line between small cold stars and big hot planets. Brown dwarfs are essentially failed stars: they lack the mass and gravity to […]

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