The Galaxy's ancient brown dwarf population revealed
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 09:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have discovered two of the oldest brown dwarfs in the Galaxy. These ancient objects are moving at speeds of 100-200 kilometers per second, much faster than normal stars and other brown dwarfs and are thought to have formed when the Galaxy was very young, more than 10 billion years ago.