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'They're kind of goth': NASA spacecraft gives mysterious brown dwarfs a close-up

'They're kind of goth': NASA spacecraft gives mysterious brown dwarfs a close-up

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Astronomers used NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft to study a large group of brown dwarfs, the "failed stars" that drift alone through space rather than orbiting other stars. The observations gave researchers a closer look at these dim, isolated objects.

Using NASA’s SPHEREx spacecraft, astronomers have studied a horde of mysterious "failed stars," or brown dwarfs, not-so-stellar loners that wander the darkness of space alone.

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