Meet HD 98800, a nearby quadruple‑star system in the constellation Crater. It sits about 150 light‑years away and is 10 million years old.

Zenghua Zhang, an astronomer at Nanjing University in China, and his colleagues were combing through catalogs of stars in search of cold brown dwarfs, interstellar objects that fall somewhere between ...

Astronomers found a rare quadruple system of two red dwarfs and two brown dwarfs 82 lightyears away, offering new insight into these elusive objects. (Nanowerk News) The "exciting" discovery of an ...

In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), a team of astronomers identified a hierarchical system where a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbits a pair of young ...

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A white dwarf star is undergoing the process of turning into a “cosmic diamond” as it begins to crystalise. The lullaby “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” talks about stars in the sky looking like diamonds ...