Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.

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Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.

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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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Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Jackalope - March 11, 2013 at 3:41 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Cyberman - March 11, 2013 at 4:00 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - March 11, 2013 at 6:24 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Jackalope - March 11, 2013 at 6:27 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - March 11, 2013 at 6:32 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Jackalope - March 11, 2013 at 6:34 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by orogenicman - March 11, 2013 at 6:43 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Anomalocaris - March 11, 2013 at 6:50 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Jackalope - March 11, 2013 at 6:57 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Anomalocaris - March 11, 2013 at 7:37 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by orogenicman - March 17, 2013 at 10:31 am

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Anomalocaris - March 17, 2013 at 11:33 am

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by orogenicman - March 17, 2013 at 2:03 pm

RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century. - by Anomalocaris - March 31, 2013 at 4:18 pm

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