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NASA's SPHEREx Telescope Reveals a Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs
Original: NASA's SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs https://www.nasa.gov/missions/spherex/nasas-spherex-telescope-se
NASA reports that its SPHEREx space telescope has observed a wide variety of brown dwarfs — objects larger than planets but too small to sustain hydrogen fusion like stars. The mission is cataloguing these dim objects in infrared light, offering new insight into how many brown dwarfs exist and how they form, a finding of note for astronomers.
Why now: NASA has just published new results from the SPHEREx mission, drawing attention from space and astronomy enthusiasts.
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- NASA's SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs https://www.nasa.gov/missions/spherex/nasas-spherex-telescope-sees-menagerie-of-brown-dwarfs/ # Space # Astronomy # Science · nasa@robot.villas · 6
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