Brown dwarfs, stars share formation process, new study indicates
Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 12:30
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs. The discovery is the first direct evidence that brown dwarfs, intermediate in mass between stars and planets, are produced by a scaled-down version of the same process that produces stars.