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Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 3:41 pm
We've got new neighbors, a system of two brown dwarfs, only 6.5 ly from Earth. Only the Alpha Centauri system and Barnard's Star are known to be closer.
http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2...hman3-2013
Quote:11 March 2013 — A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun, according to a paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. The duo is the closest star system discovered since 1916. The discovery was made by Kevin Luhman, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and a researcher in Penn State's Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds.
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Just been reading about this on ScienceBlogs. This is why I love astronomy; always something new to discover.
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2013 at 6:26 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
Damn this thread title is offensive. The proper term is little person of middle eastern origin.
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:27 pm
(March 11, 2013 at 6:24 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Damn this thread title is offensive. The proper term is little person of middle eastern origin.
That's little persons, you insensitive clod. There's two of them.
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm
(March 11, 2013 at 6:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (March 11, 2013 at 6:24 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Damn this thread title is offensive. The proper term is little person of middle eastern origin.
...you insensitive clod. ... It's "sensation challenged lump of dirt" you filthy wanker!
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:34 pm
(March 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: (March 11, 2013 at 6:27 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: ...you insensitive clod. ... It's "sensation challenged lump of dirt" you filthy wanker!
It's "notorious masturbator", you bald-headed tea-swilling French fuck.
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:43 pm
That is a great find, isn't it?
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:50 pm
(March 11, 2013 at 6:43 pm)orogenicman Wrote: That is a great find, isn't it?
The brown dwarves, or the little gems of "wit" that found its way into this thread?
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 6:57 pm
(March 11, 2013 at 6:50 pm)Chuck Wrote: (March 11, 2013 at 6:43 pm)orogenicman Wrote: That is a great find, isn't it?
The brown dwarves, or the little gems of "wit" that found its way into this thread?
The brown dwarfs, of course.
Regarding the find, it leads one to wonder how many more might be lurking nearby, and what their population density is across the galaxy.
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RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 11, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Theories seem to suggest brown population of dwarves in Milky way equals or exceeds the number of main sequence stars, that would mean 200-400 billion. If they are distributed like normal stars throughout the galaxy, then there ought to be substantial probability of undetected brown dwarves located even closer to Solar system then the ones discovered, perhaps even closer than Alpha Centuri.
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