Probably the smallest stars ever found
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA)
The border between what’s a star and what’s a planet is blurry, and new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it even much less clear. These objects seem like brown dwarfs, generally known as failed stars, however they’re nearer in dimension to massive planets – they stands out as the smallest stars ever noticed.
Kevin Luhman on the Pennsylvania State College and his colleagues noticed these three our bodies in a star-forming cluster known as IC 348, which is about…
