Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A Super Cold Brown Dwarf

The coldest known stellar object was found by an international astronomy team when they discovered a brown dwarf with a temperature of approx. 350 degrees C. It was found using telescopes from around the world, including Hawaii and Chile. The star was named CFBDS J005910.83-011401.3 and and it is about 40 light-years away from our solar system. Check it out:

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=6808

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