Star Is Discovered To Be a Close Neighbor of the Sun and the Coldest of Its Kind

Star Is Discovered To Be a Close Neighbor of the Sun and the Coldest of Its Kind
Philadelphia PA(SPX) Apr 29, 2014 - A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind - as frosty as Earth's North Pole - has been discovered by a Penn State University astronomer using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescopes. Images from the space telescopes also pinpointed the object's distance at 7.2 light-years away, making it the fourth closest system to our Sun. "I ... more

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