Astronomers have discovered a batch of nine new brown dwarfs, also known as "failed stars," including the two smallest examples of these curious celestial objects ever seen. The new find could help ...
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A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?