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Astronomers find colossal ring system putting Saturn’s to shame
An astronomy professor at the University of Leiden, Ignas Snellen,called brown dwarfs ‘failed stars‘ because they were too heavy to be typical planets (13-75 times as heavy as Jupiter) and too light to sustain the fusion of hydrogen into helium. … Continue reading
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Tagged brown dwarfs, Doppler spectroscopy, gas giants, J1407, J1407b, main sequence stars, planet formation, SuperWASP
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