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.

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So the brown dwarf that three decades ago was named Gliese 229B is now recognized as Gliese 229Ba, with a mass 38 times greater than our solar system's largest planet Jupiter, and Gliese 229Bb ...

Scientists have been observing a brown dwarf for decades, and now they have discovered that it is actually two dwarfs circling each other. Gliese 229B, the first brown dwarf discovered three decades ...

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 ...

How and why the twins formed is still a mystery. Some theories say brown dwarf pairs were seeded from the materials that surround a forming star. The discovery also leads to questions about if there ...

Scientists confirm Gliese 229B is a pair of brown dwarfs, not one Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb complete their orbits in 12 days. New findings suggest there could be more hidden brown dwarf pairs ...

Scientists have puzzled over the object known as Gliese 229B, the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago. Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they're lighter than stars ...

“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 ...