Astronomers Weigh The Coldest Brown Dwarfs With Astronomy's Sharpest Eyes
Saturday, June 7, 2008 - 23:21
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to determine for the first time the masses of the coldest class of "failed stars," a.k.a. brown dwarfs.