Wednesday, August 24, 2011

WISE Eyes: Coolest Stars

Not long after detecting the darkest planet ever by the Kepler mission, now we have the news of seeing the coldest class of stars via WISE eyes!




How cold are they? As cold as our bodies or cooler. You think that is not cold enough? It is very cold for a star, just compare it with our own Sun! Well, technically they belong to a star-like class of celestial bodies called brown dwarfs, believed to be failed stars.  They just did not make it even though they were well on their way of becoming a star.

Reference:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20110823.html

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