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Showing posts with label weather patterns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather patterns. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Noting the weather patterns of a brown dwarf


Hubble space telescopes and NASA's Spitzer investigated the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf called 2MASSJ22282889-431 026, creating the "climate map" far closer to this kind of cold orbs similar to stars. The forecast shows clouds planet-sized wind-driven involving these strange worlds.

Brown dwarfs are formed from the condensation of gas, as do the stars,but lack the necessary amount of mass to fuse atoms and energy.