The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores will never be able to fuse hydrogen like full-fledged stars—brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, often called “failed stars,” over time become very […]
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Astrophysics, Brown Dwarfs, Goddard Space Flight Center, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Science & Research, Star-forming Nebulae, The Universe
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March 10, 2025
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