Meet WISEA 1147: A Young, Free-Floating Low-Mass Brown Dwarf

In the universe we inhabit, free-floating worlds -- wanderers in the truest sense of the word -- are dime a dozen. Although scientists are still not sure where these objects -- which may very well outnumber planets with suns -- come from, a new NASA study has provided fresh evidence that at least some of them might be low-mass stars known as brown dwarfs.