brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars, NASA, STScI
Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, researchers identified 17 brown dwarf companions to red dwarf stars, one brown dwarf pair, and one brown dwarf with a planetary companion. (NASA, ESA, and G. Strampelli of STScI)
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Hubble Finds Substellar Objects in the Orion Nebula

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brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars, NASA, STScI
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers identified 17 brown dwarf companions to red dwarf stars, one brown dwarf pair, and one brown dwarf with a planetary companion. (NASA, ESA, and G. Strampelli of STScI)

Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey…

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