James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Smallest ‘Failed Stars’ Ever Seen
Failed Stars

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Smallest ‘Failed Stars’ Ever Seen

November 2023, in a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has identified the smallest known brown dwarfs—often called "failed stars"—within the IC 348 star cluster, about 1,000 light-years away. The findings, published in The…

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Stellar Quakes
Stellar quakes

Stellar Quakes

Stellar quakes, also known as starquakes, are vibrations or oscillations that occur on the surface of stars. These are analogous to earthquakes on Earth, but instead of the movement of…

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