How to Use brown dwarf in a Sentence

brown dwarf

noun
  • In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty faint.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
  • In this case, the brown dwarf is 10 times less massive than the dense white dwarf.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The object, known as a brown dwarf, is 33.2 light-years away from Earth.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Apr. 2020
  • In the case of brown dwarfs, though, that shine is pretty feeble.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2024
  • On the opposite end of the brown dwarf mass scale lies the Accident.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • On the opposite end of the brown dwarf mass scale lies the Accident.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • On the opposite end of the brown dwarf mass scale lies the Accident.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • On the opposite end of the brown dwarf mass scale lies the Accident.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • On the opposite end of the brown dwarf mass scale lies the Accident.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • On the opposite end of the brown dwarf mass scale lies the Accident.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • An artist's conception of what a brown dwarf might look like.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
  • What a brown dwarf might look like up close is also unclear.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Anything between those bounds, then, should be a brown dwarf.
    — Nola Taylor Redd, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2018
  • At the time, researchers thought SIMP was a brown dwarf: an object that’s too big to be a planet, but too small to be a star.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 3 Aug. 2018
  • These cool brown dwarfs can be spotted in telescope images of the night sky, and astronomers need your help to do it.
    — Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Look through images of space and point out potential brown dwarfs near Earth.
    — Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 6 May 2024
  • The article also says the brown dwarf is about 47 light-years away, which is much farther than the 7 trillion miles claimed in the video.
    — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Matthews says that both the brown dwarfs likely formed from the same material, and at the same time, as Eps Ind Ab and its parent star.
    — Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 24 July 2024
  • And Allers has figured out how to measure wind speed on a brown dwarf (2,300 kilometers per hour).
    — Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 19 July 2021
  • What's the difference between a giant planet and a brown dwarf?
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 24 Jan. 2018
  • Three teams have identified a dozen or so brown dwarfs between three and eight Jupiter masses—and no smaller.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 2024
  • In contrast, stars, including brown dwarfs, form on their own within giant collapsing clouds of gas.
    — Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 2024
  • This provides scientists with valuable data on how their formation compares to that of a star or brown dwarf, the term given to large gaseous planets that fail to develop into stars.
    — Javier Carbajal, WIRED, 25 Mar. 2025

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