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'They're kind of goth': NASA spacecraft gives mysterious brown dwarfs a close-up www.space.com/astronomy/st...

space.com'They're kind of goth': NASA spacecraft gives mysterious brown dwarfs a close-up"Unlike exoplanets, free-floating brown dwarfs are completely independent celestial objects that will fade into eternity alone."

19/10/26, 3:11 pm0 reposts7 likes

Markus

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They might be able to fade into eternity alone but they are, in the longer run, very likely to form gravitational partnerships with other substellar objects like similar brown dwarfs and rogue planets and they can become planetary themselves whenever a larger star captures one.