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06-03-08, 03:13 AM
Astronomers Weigh the Coldest Brown Dwarfs
“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. With masses as light as 3 percent the mass of the sun, these are the lowest mass free-floating objects ever weighed outside the solar system.”
Read more (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Liu_AAS_June08/)
“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. With masses as light as 3 percent the mass of the sun, these are the lowest mass free-floating objects ever weighed outside the solar system.”
Read more (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/Liu_AAS_June08/)