A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two new brown dwarfs, TOI-4776 b and TOI-5422 b, have been discovered using TESS. TOI-4776 b is about 32 times the mass of Jupiter, orbits an F-type star every ...

NEW ORLEANS — When astronomer Jackie Faherty peered into space using information from the James Webb Space Telescope, there was something she couldn't take her eyes off of. Brown dwarf W1935, a ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud ...

In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many other extraterrestrial wonders. Accretion—The collection of ...

Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called "failed stars," over ...

Astronomers also aren't ruling out the possibility that it's a brown dwarf, an object that's between a planet and a star. The latest research builds on existing observations by NASA's Hubble and ...

Due to their close proximity, the white dwarf strips mass from its low-mass companion. This process has removed about 90 per cent of the mass of the companion, turning it from a star into a brown ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within it, there are objects so small that their cores will never be ...