A comparison of the relative size of planets and brown dwarfs to the size of our sun. Credit: https://student.societyforscience.org/article/failed-%E2%80%98star%E2%80%99-found-sun%E2%80%99s-backyard
Despite being discovered 20 yrs ago, little is known about brown dwarfs – notably why they fail to grow into stars. Part of the answer probably lies in the physics of how dense plasmas merge inside them. Now researchers, led by the York Plasma Institute at the University of York and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Central Laser
Facility, have created “lumps” of plasma to recreate the conditions similar to those found deep inside brown dwarfs...
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