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Scientific Frontline
Scientific Frontline
@sflorg@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

This particular brown dwarf’s mass, however, is just at the threshold between being a Jupiter-like #planet and a brown dwarf. It has thus also been called a free-floating, or rogue, planet, not bound to a #star
#PlanetaryScience #Astronomy #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/ps11072501.html

McGill-led team maps ‘weather’ on a nearby brown dwarf in unprecedented detail

Study reveals patchy clouds and shifting atmospheric layers on a free-floating planetary-mass object just 20 light-years away
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