It's Twins! Mystery of Famed Brown Dwarf Solved
October 16, 2024
October 16, 2024
PASADENA, California, Oct. 16 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229 B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass. Brown dwarfs are lighter than stars and heavier than gas giants like Jupiter. And while astronomers had measured the mass of Glies . . .
Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229 B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing mystery has persisted about this orb: It is too dim for its mass. Brown dwarfs are lighter than stars and heavier than gas giants like Jupiter. And while astronomers had measured the mass of Glies . . .