Brown Dwarf Artist's Conception (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Brown Dwarf Artist's Conception (2 of 2)

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This artist's conception zooms in on the brown dwarf and its accretion disk. The discovery of a bipolar molecular outflow at ISO-Oph 102 offers the first strong evidence in favor of brown dwarf formation through gravitational collapse.

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David A. Aguilar (CfA)

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