The Accident

English

Etymology

From being accidentally discovered.

Proper noun

The Accident

1. (astronomy, informal) A brown dwarf in interstellar space in the Milky Way galaxy; thought to be the oldest brown dwarf yet discovered, and having the fastest brown dwarf galactic orbital velocity yet discovered, at the time of its discovery in 2021.

Hypernyms

• astronomical object
• astrophysical source
• brown dwarf
• celestial body
• fusor

 

Further reading

• WISE 1534–1043 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia