Article 6HSAW Webb Telescope Finds What May Be a Glowing Aurora on a Failed Star

Webb Telescope Finds What May Be a Glowing Aurora on a Failed Star

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Isaac Schultz
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The Webb Space Telescope has spotted something weird: a brown dwarf with what appear to be aurorae, what we Earthlings sometimes call the Northern Lights. What makes the observation particularly surprising is that the brown dwarf doesn't have a nearby star that could cause such an aurora.

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