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Brown Dwarfs. Artist's vision of a T dwarf. Credit: R. Hurt and NASA

Podcast Episode 105 l Brown Dwarfs – Planets, stars, or something entirely different?

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Brown Dwarfs – Planets, stars, or something entirely different? Scientists think they lie between the two and can't fuse hydrogen.

Brown Dwarfs. Artists concept of T type Brown Dwarf. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Brown Dwarfs – are they planets, stars, or something entirely different?

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What are Brown Dwarfs? Are they Planets, stars, or something entirely different? According to scientists, they lie between planets and stars and can't fuse hydrogen in their cores.

Wispy hair-like filaments of pink-purple fill the middle of the image, curving left and right on either side of the centre. On the right, the filaments form a dramatic loop that seems to extend toward the viewer. At lower left are additional yellowish filaments. Two prominent, bright stars near the centre of the image show Webb’s eight-point diffraction spikes. Dozens of fainter stars are scattered across the image

Webb finds the smallest free-floating brown dwarf

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Webb finds the smallest free-floating brown dwarf, which are also known as failed stars. Scientists imaged the centre of a cluster using Webb’s NIRCam and find three brown dwarfs.