#browndwarfs — Public Fediverse posts

🌌 Some cosmic objects exist at the threshold. Too massive for planetary peace, too small for stellar fire, they drift through ages in slow surrender to darkness.

✍️ Discover these failed stars between worlds 🔭: https://TPC8.short.gy/OdqADo74

✨ Where physics draws boundaries, nature paints twilight

#BrownDwarfs #Astrophysics #CosmicThresholds #Physics #StellarEvolution #Astronomy #Space #TPC8

#TachyonBeam #astronomy #stars #RedDwarfs #BrownDwarfs

An article published in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" (MNRAS) reports the discovery of a rare hierarchical quadruple system, which was cataloged as UPM J1040−3551 AabBab. A team of researchers used various observations to identify this quartet consisting of a pair of red dwarfs and a pair of brown dwarfs.

https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2025/08/20/rare-hierarchical-quadruple-system-discovered-with-two-red-dwarfs-and-two-brown-dwarfs/

3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/3-years-of-science-10-cosmic-surprises-from-nasas-webb-telescope/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #BrownDwarfs #ExoplanetScience #Exoplanets #Galaxies #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #Nebulae #ScienceResearch

3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/3-years-of-science-10-cosmic-surprises-from-nasas-webb-telescope/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #BrownDwarfs #ExoplanetScience #Exoplanets #Galaxies #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #Nebulae #ScienceResearch

3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/3-years-of-science-10-cosmic-surprises-from-nasas-webb-telescope/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #BrownDwarfs #ExoplanetScience #Exoplanets #Galaxies #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #Nebulae #ScienceResearch

3 Years of Science: 10 Cosmic Surprises from NASA’s Webb Telescope https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/3-years-of-science-10-cosmic-surprises-from-nasas-webb-telescope/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #BrownDwarfs #ExoplanetScience #Exoplanets #Galaxies #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #Nebulae #ScienceResearch

Discovery Alert: A Possible Perpendicular Planet https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/discovery-alert-a-possible-perpendicular-planet/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BinaryStars #BrownDwarfs #Exoplanets #ScienceResearch #TheUniverse

#astronomy #BrownDwarfs #NGC602 #JWST

An article published in "The Astrophysical Journal" reports the identification of 64 brown dwarf candidates in the star cluster NGC 602 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to obtain the sensitivity and resolution needed to detect possible objects halfway between the planet and the star about 200,000 light-years away.
https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/10/24/first-candidate-brown-dwarfs-discovered-outside-the-milky-way/

Stellar surprise – astronomers uncover methane emission on a cold brown dwarf for the first time

https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/2024/stellar-surprise--astronomers-uncover-methane-emission-on-a-cold-brown-dwarf-for-the-first-time/

📷 This artist concept portrays the brown dwarf W1935. The team speculates that the methane emission may be due to processes generating aurorae, shown here in red. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (Space Telescope Science Institute).

#discovery #aurora #JWST #aurorae #browndwarfs #W1935 #glowing #methane #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #space #science #research #STEM

Hubble Brown Dwarf Survey Illustration ✨

#BinaryStars #BrownDwarfs #Stars

▶️ 1 new picture from Hubble (NASA) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hubble_Brown_Dwarf_Survey_Illustration_%282024-005%29.tiff

According to Thomas Keightley’s ‘The Fairy Mythology,’ the Brown Dwarfs from the German Isle of Rügen are particularly offended by lazy servants and maids. One of the ways these dwarfs punish those they deem to be inadequate workers is to give them terrible nightmares. #WyrdWednesday

📷: Jen Theodore

#Folklore #Dwarfs #BrownDwarfs #IsleOfRugen #Germany #GermanFolklore #Dream #Nightmare