A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

NEW ORLEANS — When astronomer Jackie Faherty peered into space using information from the James Webb Space Telescope, there was something she couldn't take her eyes off of. Brown dwarf W1935, a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Two new brown dwarfs, TOI-4776 b and TOI-5422 b, have been discovered using TESS. TOI-4776 b is about 32 times the mass of Jupiter, orbits an F-type star every ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...

called a brown dwarf. An instrument on Webb called the Near-Infrared Spectrograph collects light from distant objects and then separates them into different wavelengths, or colors, like a prism.