It's like a celestial body designed by Tim Burton.
It's like a celestial body designed by Tim Burton.Astronomers have found a distant brown dwarf, a celestial body that resembles a star, that's covered inIt's a bizarre find, but it's not the first time that astronomers have seen a striped brown dwarf,However, the technique used by the Caltech astronomers, known as polarimetry, could provide a new tool for researchers trying to probe and understand the cosmos.
"Polarimetry is a very difficult art, but new techniques and data analysis methods make it more precise and sensitive than ever before," Caltech astronomer Dimitri Mawet , "enabling groundbreaking studies on everything from distant supermassive black holes, newborn and dying stars, brown dwarfs, and exoplanets, all the way down to objects in our own solar system."This particular case marks the first time that astronomers used polarimetry to analyze the weather and environment of a brown dwarf,
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