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Exoplanets

In Our Time

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The Future of Astrophysics

Brown dwarfs are like failed stars. To make a star you need to have a certain mass. You can go through the formation process for a star and find you don't have enough mass. And so nuclear reactions can never start. So brown dwarfs are out there. We know we've known them for 20 years now, 30 years. And they can also have planetary systems of their own. These are quite interesting because these are different to stellar systems, but planetary systems nonetheless. It's just another facet of everywhere we look. They're a planet. But do they bring anything special to the table at the moment? Because this discussion, as in terms of all your investigations, is very

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