Webb’s 11-Hour Stare Catches Carbon Swings on a Rogue Brown Dwarf

Webb’s 11-Hour Stare Catches Carbon Swings on a Rogue Brown Dwarf

Twenty-seven researchers, led by the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory, used the James Webb Space Telescope for eleven uninterrupted hours to study WISE 0855, the coldest known object outside the Solar System. They report irregular water clouds that thicken and thin; the work is accepted by The Astronomical Journal and posted as a preprint. The … Read more