Coldest brown dwarfs blur lines between stars and planets
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 14:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —Astronomers are constantly on the hunt for ever-colder star-like bodies, and two years ago a new class of such objects was discovered by researchers using NASA's WISE space telescope. However, until now no one has known exactly how cool their surfaces really are - some evidence suggested they could be room temperature.