Brown dwarfs are difficult to find because they are relatively small and faint, and often cooler in temperature. The Backyard Worlds project took advantage of the technology known as the "Mark 1 ...

A “failed star” known as a brown dwarf is orbiting so tightly with a small star that both of them would fit inside our sun, and at least one of them won’t survive By Alex Wilkins 9 August 2023 ...

The study was initially prompted by research from 2013 which proposed that as many as 70 billion of the up to 400 billion stars in our galaxy were of the “failed” brown dwarf variety.