An artist impression of a brown dwarf Chuck Carter and Gregg Hallinan/Caltech
A strange “failed star” has shed its outer layers – an event that astronomers had never seen before. The celestial body appears to be surrounded by a bubble of gas that was mostly blasted off by an immense pulse of heat.
at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia and her colleagues were looking for the early signs of planets forming when they spotted what seemed to be a bubble of carbon monoxide. “When I found this object it was so different I thought…
