First weather map of brown dwarf: Surface of nearest brown dwarf charted
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth. An international team has made a chart of the dark and light features on WISE J104915.57-531906.1B, which is informally known as Luhman 16B and is one of two recently discovered brown dwarfs forming a pair only six light-years from the Sun.