Astronomers have an ultracool star that only has a surface temperature of 425 degrees centigrade, cooler than the cleaning cycle of a typical oven. For comparison, the Sun has a surface temperature of about 5600 C. This isn't the coldest star ever seen, but it's the coldest that was discovered using radio astronomy. This class of ultracool brown dwarfs is challenging to find because they don't have the kind of dynamics that produce magnetic fields and generate radio waves. Stars are active in th...
Astronomers have an ultracool star that only has a surface temperature of 425 degrees centigrade, cooler than the cleaning cycle of a typical oven. For comparison, the Sun has a surface temperature of about 5600 C. This isn't the coldest star ever seen, but it's the coldest that was discovered using radio astronomy. This class of ultracool brown dwarfs is challenging to find because they don't have the kind of dynamics that produce magnetic fields and generate radio waves. Stars are active in th...
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