Failed Star Creates Its Own Spotlight in the Universe
Monday, June 13, 2016 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
A research team has discovered a 23-million-year-old brown dwarf that flashes brighter than the sun's most powerful flares. The team, led by the University of Delaware's John Gizis, used NASA's Kepler space telescope to discover the failed star. The findings show what a young sun could do.