brown dwarf

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Recent Examples on the Web In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty faint. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024 Zoom out: Their new proposal would instead classify planets based on their mass, considering a planet to be any celestial body that: orbits one or more stars, brown dwarfs or stellar remnants and, is more massive than 10²³ kilograms (kg) and, is less massive than 13 Jupiter masses (2.5 X 10²⁸ kg). Jacob Knutson, Axios, 11 July 2024 The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video. Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024 But all these processes are fleeting, leaving brown dwarfs relatively inert. Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for brown dwarf 

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“Brown dwarf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brown%20dwarf. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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