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Tiniest stars not much larger than Jupiter

Yes, Jupiter is a standard unit of mass!

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Nov 12, 2024
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A dim sun seem from a cold world

Astronomers believe they've spotted the tiniest stars: brown dwarfs only a few times the size of Jupiter, lurking dimly in the darkest depths of space.

"For the first time, you can actually look for objects down to at least a couple of Jupiter masses," says Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University a…

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