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Stormy with a Chance of Molten Iron Rain: First Ever Map of Exotic Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:22
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Brown Dwarf Luhman 16B: A recreated artist’s conception based on the VLT observations. Credit: ESO/I. Crossfield/Risinger.
Think the weather is nasty this winter here on Earth? Try vacationing on the brown dwarf Luhman 16B sometime.
Two studies out this week from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy based at Heidelberg, Germany offer the first look at the atmospheric features of a brown dwarf.(…)
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