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Behind the Scenes: The “Making Of” the First Brown Dwarf Surface Map
By now, you will probably have heard that astronomers have produced the first global weather map for a brown dwarf. (If you haven’t, you can find the story here.) May be you’ve even built the cube model or the origami balloon model of the surface of the brown dwarf Luhman 16B the researchers provided (here).
Two views of the brown dwarf map for Luhman 16B. Image credit: ESO/I. Crossfield
Since one of my hats is that of public information officer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, where most of the map-making took place, I was involved in writing a press release about the result. But one aspect that I found particularly interesting didn’t get much coverage there. (…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/108581/behind-the-scenes-the-making-of-the-first-brown-dwarf-surface-map/
