Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf

[Swede]

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a finding that, if confirmed, may solve an astronomical mystery about how these cosmic misfits are formed.

Brown dwarfs are misfits because they fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass. They are cooler and more lightweight than stars and more massive (and normally warmer) than planets. This has generated a debate among astronomers: Do brown dwarfs form like planets or like stars?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123173540.htm

[John N Morgan]

1. They were populated planets that had a different ending to their "cold war"

[zbdent]

2. cue the RWers claiming discrimination because all the white normal size stars

are being ignored in the political-correctness era of the Kenyan-born brown alleged pResident ...