Infrared emission from methane suggests atmospheric heating by auroral processes. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere. This is an unexpected discovery because the brown dwarf, […]
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James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Auroras, Brown Dwarfs, Goddard Space Flight Center, Heliophysics, Science & Research, Stars, The Universe
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January 9, 2024
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