A brown dwarf only about three to 10 times Jupiter’s mass couldn’t get fusion going and now sits freezing in space, in the nearby galactic neighborhood. Clara Moskowitz reports.
04-30-14 | Clara Moskowitz
Call this story, “A star is stillborn.”
The object is a brown dwarf, which started off the same way that more conventional stars form, but which lacked the mass required for nuclear fusion to ignite and radiate starlight. What resulted was a body somewhere in between a star and a planet.
Oh, Horatio…