Unprecedented map shows weather on an alien brown dwarf

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 18:21 in Astronomy & Space

Scientists have created the first weather map of a space oddity known as a brown dwarf, revealing a rare glimpse at alien weather patterns on the failed, wannabe star.The map shows the weather on the surface of WISE J104915.57-531906.1B (called Luhman 16B for short). It's just 6.

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