Artist's composition of the two brown dwarfs, in the foreground Oph 98B in purple, in the background Oph 98A in red. (IMAGE)

University of Bern

Artist's composition of the two brown dwarfs, in the foreground Oph 98B in purple, in the background Oph 98A in red.

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Artist's composition of the two brown dwarfs, in the foreground Oph 98B in purple, in the background Oph 98A in red. Oph 98A is the more massive and therefore more luminous and hotter of the two. The two objects are surrounded by the molecular cloud in which they were formed.

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© University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger

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