brown dwarf

English

Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia

Noun

brown dwarf (plural brown dwarfs or brown dwarves)

  1. (astronomy) A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of the planet Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.


Translations

See also

↑Jump back a section

Read in another language

This page is available in 4 languages

Last modified on 11 November 2012, at 19:16