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And while we don’t want to start accidentally breeding strains of bacteria that find bleach delicious and nutritious, it’s not all bad news. The researchers also identified an intriguing new strain of so-called nanobacteria. Nanobacteria have genomes so tiny that they’re largely dependent on other organisms for producing the resources they need to survive. The authors found a strain that lives on human skin and produces carotenoids and ubiquinone, which are both important antioxidants.
That first discovery, known as Gliese 229B, was thought to have the mass of around 70 Jupiters, though it didn’t shine as brightly as it should have given that heft. Now astronomers have finally figured out why: it’s twins! Gliese 229B is not one brown dwarf, but two. The twins come in at about 38 and 34 times the mass of Jupiter, respectively. The binary objects whip around each other once every 12 days, and orbit their host star once every 250 years.
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