Brenda is the Brown Dwarf, an “astronomical wannabe … [floating] through space, lifeless and dull.” She falls in with Jori, a disturbingly self-possessed girl who latches onto Brenda with enthusiastic ...

“This lack of brown dwarf companions within 5 AU of Sun-like stars has been called the ‘brown dwarf desert’,” Close noted. “However, we see there is likely no brown dwarf desert ...

Researchers found two possible distances between the brown dwarf and its host star, based on available data: 0.25 AU and 45 AU. The 0.25 AU distance would put this system in the brown dwarf desert.

So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named Gliese 229B is now recognized as Gliese 229Ba, with a mass 38 times greater than our solar system's largest planet Jupiter, and Gliese 229Bb ...

Quirks and Quarks Amateur astronomers use the 'mark one eyeball' to find brown dwarf stars Astronomers call on thousands of citizens scientists to help map 'failed stars' in the Sun’s backyard ...

A pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229ba and Gliese 229bb. Gliese 229b, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until now astronomers thought they ...