Tag Archive for 'Free-floating brown dwarf'

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from Hubble on the left, while the two insets at the right show the near-infrared view taken by Webb. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / M. Meyer, University of Michigan / A. Pagan, STScI.

Webb Focuses on Flame Nebula’s Brown Dwarfs

Mar 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have explored the lowest mass limit of brown dwarfs within the Flame Nebula, a hotbed of...

This image from Webb’s NIRCam instrument shows the central portion of the star cluster IC 348. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / K. Luhman, Penn State University / C. Alves de Oliveira, ESA.

Webb Finds Small Free-Floating Brown Dwarf in Star-Forming Cluster IC 348

Dec 13, 2023 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered brown dwarf has an estimated mass of 3-4 Jupiter masses, making it a strong contender for the least massive free-floating brown dwarf...