ScienceBrown dwarfs twice Jupiter’s mass reported in Webb image
NASA says the view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from the James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA reports that researchers found brown dwarfs twice the mass of Jupiter—small for this class of object—in the Webb image. The agency explains that brown dwarfs form like stars but never become hot enough to fuse ordinary hydrogen into helium, which is why they are sometimes called “failed stars.”
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Brown dwarfs twice Jupiter’s mass reported in Webb image
NASA says the view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 is one of the largest images released to date from the James Webb Space Telescope.