The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.
is not the coldest star ever found, but it is the coolest to be analyzed using radio astronomy, according to the team on this study.
“It’s very rare to find ultracool brown dwarf stars like this producing radio emission. That’s because their dynamics do not usually produce the magnetic fields that generate radio emissions detectable from Earth,” co-author and University of Sydney PhD student Kovi Rose. “Finding this brown dwarf producing radio waves at such a low temperature is a neat discovery.
Astronomers are still questioning the internal dynamics of brown dwarf stars that produce radio waves. They do have a good idea of howIt’s possible that the
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