2013

• 1/8/2013 STScI-2013-02 1. NASA Space Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf named 2MASSJ22282889-431026, creating... (More)

2010

• 4/6/2010 STScI-2010-03 2. Small Companion to Brown Dwarf Challenges Simple Definition As our telescopes grow more powerful, astronomers are uncovering objects that defy conventional wisdom. This latest example is the discovery of a planet-like... (More)

2009

• 1/5/2009 STScI-2009-01 3. Brown Dwarfs Don't Hang Out With Stars Brown dwarfs, objects that are less massive than stars but larger than planets, just got more elusive, based on studies of nearby multiple-star systems... (More)

2006

• 9/7/2006 STScI-2006-31 4. Planet Or Failed Star? NASA's Hubble Telescope Photographs One of Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed one of the smallest objects... (More)
• 3/15/2006 STScI-2006-11 5. Astronomers Measure Precise Mass of a Binary Brown Dwarf This is an artist's concept of a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are mysterious celestial objects that fall somewhere between the smallest... (More)

2005

• 11/30/2005 STScI-2005-31 6. Planet-Sized Brown Dwarf May Yield Smallest Known Solar System Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and other ground-based observatories have discovered a failed star, less than one-hundredth... (More)
• 1/10/2005 STScI-2005-03 7. Hubble's Infrared Eyes Home in on Suspected Extrasolar Planet The Hubble Space Telescope's near-infrared vision is hot on the trail of a possible planetary companion to a relatively bright young brown dwarf located... (More)

2004

• 6/15/2004 STScI-2004-51 8. Ultra-cool Diminutive Star Weighs In The power of the some of the world's biggest telescopes has been brought to bear to directly measure the mass, for the first time, of one of the smallest stars ever seen in the universe. (More)

2000

• 8/24/2000 STScI-2000-19 9. Hubble Spies Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Stellar Nursery Probing deep within a neighborhood stellar nursery, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a swarm of newborn brown dwarfs. The orbiting observatory's near-infrared... (More)
• 8/24/2000 STScI-2000-29 10. Hubble Takes Census of Elusive Brown Dwarf Stars Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have carried out the most complete inventory to date of brown dwarfs, one of the universe's most elusive... (More)