Sentences with phrase «clouds on brown dwarfs»

During this seminar, I will review recent observations of clouds on brown dwarfs and exoplanets.

Helling showed that the glittery clouds on brown dwarfs can create such charges.

Not exact matches

Adding up all the dark forms of ordinary matter (gas clouds, brown dwarfs, black holes, and so on) still leaves 95 percent of the mass in the universe unaccounted for.

Previous observations of the brown dwarf, published in 2014, provided tentative indications of water clouds based on very limited photometric data.

Although northern lights also exist on giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn, the newly discovered aurorae are thousands of times more powerful; furthermore, the same electrons that trigger these aurorae may drive weather patterns on brown dwarfs, some of which have clouds.

I am excited about our results because they open a new window on very fundamental processes in brown dwarfs (atmospheric circulation, heat exchanges, and cloud formation) and, at the same time, they also explain a number of past observations that puzzled brown dwarf experts.

We present here our search methods and spectroscopic follow - up of our high - priority c... ▽ More We are conducting a proper - motion survey for young brown dwarfs in the Taurus - Auriga molecular cloud based on the Pan-STARRS1 3 $ \ pi $ Survey.

On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.