Brown dwarf detected in the CoRoT-20 system

Monday, July 16, 2018 - 06:31 in Astronomy & Space

An international group of astronomers has discovered a new substellar object in the planetary system CoRoT-20. The newly identified object was classified as a brown dwarf due to its mass, which is greater than that of the heaviest gas giant planets. The finding is reported in a paper published July 3 on arXiv.org.

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