Relative size of brown dwarf stars (IMAGE)

University of Sydney

Relative size of brown dwarf stars

Caption

An image displaying the relative size of a typical brown dwarf star. In the instance of the star in this study, the brown dwarf is smaller than Jupiter (between 0.65 and 0.95 its radius) but is more massive, somewhere between four and 44 times the mass of Jupiter.

Credit

NASA/JPL

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License

Public Domain

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