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 17, 2013 at 11:33 am

I believe the theoretical detection distance of coolest and smallest brown dwarves is well under 1 light year using current technology. Even if we have surveyed every part of the sky with our best technology, we would still have only excluded any closer brown dwarves than alpha centuri from less than 1/64th of the volume of space such brown dwarves might occupy.

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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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