RE: Binary brown dwarf discovered 6.5 ly from Earth, closest in a century.
March 31, 2013 at 4:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2013 at 4:32 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Yes.
But there are probably many more cool, dim, nearly jovian planet sized mini-brown dwarves than there are large hot, nearly stellar sized maxi-brown dwarves. So statistically, if there is a brown dwarves nearer than alpha centuri, it is more likely it would turn out to be dim and cool, and so hard to detect, instead and bright and warm.
But there are probably many more cool, dim, nearly jovian planet sized mini-brown dwarves than there are large hot, nearly stellar sized maxi-brown dwarves. So statistically, if there is a brown dwarves nearer than alpha centuri, it is more likely it would turn out to be dim and cool, and so hard to detect, instead and bright and warm.
