brown dwarf

English

Noun

brown dwarf (plural brown dwarfs or brown dwarves)

1. (astronomy) A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of 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

starlike object

• Catalan: nana marró
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 褐矮星 (zh) (hè'ǎixīng, hé'ǎixīng), 棕矮星 (zh) (zōng'ǎixīng)

• Czech: hnědý trpaslík m
• Danish: brun dværg c
• Dutch: Bruine Dwerg m
• Esperanto: bruna nano
• Finnish: ruskea kääpiö (fi)
• French: naine brune (fr) f
• Georgian: ყავისფერი ჯუჯა (q̇avisperi ǯuǯa)
• German: Brauner Zwerg m
• Hebrew: ננס חום
• Hungarian: barna törpe (hu)
• Icelandic: brúnn dvergur
• Irish: abhac donn m
• Italian: nana bruna f
• Japanese: 褐色矮星 (かっしょくわいせい, kasshoku-waisei)
• Macedonian: кафеаво џуџе n (kafeavo džudže)
• Polish: brązowy karzeł m
• Portuguese: anã marrom f, anã castanha f
• Russian: кори́чневый ка́рлик (ru) m (koríčnevyj kárlik)
• Serbo-Croatian: смеђи патуљак m (smeđi patuljak)
• Slovak: hnedý trpaslík
• Slovene: rjava pritlikavka f
• Spanish: enana marrón
• Swedish: brun dvärg (sv)

See also

• sub-brown dwarf
• black dwarf
• red dwarf
• white dwarf