Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf star, was first observed in 1995. Brown dwarfs, or "brown dwarves," if you're into J.R.R. Tolkien, are substellar objects with higher mass than the largest ...
Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maine Department of Education established two outdoor education programs, allowing students statewide to learn in new and innovative ways outside of the ...
In 1995, Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory first observed what appeared to be a brown dwarf orbiting Gliese 229 – a red dwarf star located about 19 light-years from Earth.
King Billy pine trees are a living relic of Gondwana, the ancient supercontinent that eventually broke up into Africa, South America and Australia some 180 million years ago. I’m here because ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This illustration provided by Caltech depicts the orbits of brown dwarf twins, Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb ...
This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...
"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...
A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. A beloved sugar maple slowly succumbed to disease. Today, it lives on in a new form. Corey Snyder, a wood ...