JWST Observes a New Type of Brown Dwarf | Exoplanet Radio ep 18

Imagine a planet that is so far away from us that it takes 40 years for its light to reach us. Now imagine that this planet has not one, but two stars that it orbits around. And finally, imagine that this planet has clouds made of sand particles that change the brightness of its atmosphere wildly as they move in the air.
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of the planets in our solar system, or even like most of the planets that we have found outside our solar system. It is a type of planet called a brown dwarf, which is somewhere between a giant gas planet and a small star. Brown dwarfs are very hard to study, because they are very faint and cold compared to stars, and very bright and hot compared to planets.
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[@leppie]

Waiting for Betamax planet with even better colors :D

[@DavidStJames11]

Ha!😂

[@headcultee]

Hi Tony. VHS 1256b is a cooling star, just like Earth. Reference to Jeffrey Wolynski's work. What amazes me that astronomy has not yet seen that these "planets" have an internal temperature gradient but are still pointing to having one temperature. Discussing atmosphere is knowing that you have a temperature gradient. Can you tell me what the surface temperature of VHS 1256b is? Let me blow your mind. A lot of stars (planets) have an internal habitable zone.

[@87solarsky]

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[@selfworthy]

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[@deepastronomy]

Can you be more specific? is it too loud or too low?