Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space

Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space

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An international team led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body (a brown dwarf) ever found outside our own solar system. The team's findings have been accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The images above show the cool brown dwarf SDSS1416B and its warmer companion brown dwarf SDSS1416A (the left image is from the UKIRT telescope and the right image from the Subaru telescope).
ASTRONOMERS DISCOVER COOL STARS IN NEARBY SPACE (RAS PN 10/05)
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What has excited astronomers are its very peculiar colours, which actually make it appear either very blue or very red, depending on which part of the spectrum is used to look at it.
The object is known as SDSS1416+13B and it is in a wide orbit around a somewhat brighter and warmer brown dwarf, SDSS1416+13A. The brighter member of the pair was detected in visible light by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. By contrast, SDSS1416+13B is only seen in infrared light. The pair is located between 15 and 50 light years from the solar system, which is quite close in astronomical terms.

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The same news on Discovery News news.discovery.com...

A brown dwarf star visible in Blu and Red light.
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reply to post by Imagir


You keep stuffing my brain with funky images ! Awesome postage, will be flagging/starring for bringing this to my attention !

reply to post by Imagir


Fascinating stuff! Thanks for posting this, awesome pics.

Even though these objects are 10 - 15 light years away from our solar system, I don't think that will stop the Niburu crowd from jumping on this one. Hope you're ready for it!

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The elephant in the room... you had to go there Prepare to repell borders gentlemen, a tide of idiots may be approaching !

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Thank you Imagir for bring this here for us to read and see.

Originally posted by TrueBrit
The elephant in the room... you had to go there

Prepare to repell borders gentlemen, a tide of idiots may be approaching !

Are you saying that anyone who thinks Nibiru a possibility is an idiot?

And who may I ask are you to judge anyone as such?

Have you studied the Sumerian Tablets that tell about that world, and no I don't mean just read Sitchin's books.

(Mods, spank me if my manners need putting back on.)

reply to post by Tayesin


I am of course reffering to those who cannot back up thier claims with solid, ironclad, copperbottomed scientific proof, not those who have done thier research.
Also , just to clarify , sumerian texts and tablets and so forth are scientific proof of diddly squat, and therefore largely irrelavent in terms of astrophysics and so on.

Originally posted by Tayesin
Are you saying that anyone who thinks Nibiru a possibility is an idiot?

Well, the whole Nibiru Apocalypse thing is pretty idiotic, isn't it?

Even intelligent people are sometimes prone to idiotic ideas.

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