07-30-2015, 09:15 PM
(07-30-2015, 05:21 PM)stevebowers Wrote:Quote:"We already known from observations of brown dwarves that they have clouds in the atmosphere. Now we know they also show auroras, it is yet more reason to consider brown dwarves as scaled-up versions of planets rather than scaled-down version of stars."
Interesting. Are the planets around a brown dwarf more like moons?
I suspect they're similar to the planets of very dim red dwarves, at least at the upper end like these M8.5V brown dwarves.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama