"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...

“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fin ...

Some are new versions of familiar archetypes like the adventurous proto-hobbit Nori (Markella Kavenagh) and the gruff dwarf ...

When you think of a Dwarf in Middle-earth, chances are you think of John Rhys-Davies’ gruff Scottish one-liners. His iconic turn as Gimli has inspired countless depictions of fantasy Dwarves in ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

In a beautiful valley there lived three billy goats, little, middle sized and big billy goat gruff and they loved spending all day munching on grass. One day they eaten all the grass in their ...

Liz Kitchen returns with more songs, rhymes and listening games to join in with and the story The Billy Goats Gruff. The goats came marching two by two, Hurrah, hurrah The little one stopped ...

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing ...