Luhman 16 - The closest Brown Dwarfs to Earth

In our local galactic neighbourhood, lying 3rd closest to the earth is Luhman 16, this is a binary brown dwarf system. This star system consists of two brown dwarf stars. Luhman 16A is a L class brown dwarf. It would glow faintly red to our eyes. Studies have suggested that Luhman 16A has large bands similar to a gas giant planet.

Luhman 16B is a T class brown dwarf. This would glow faintly pink or purple to our eyes. These brown dwarfs orbit their common centre of mass with a distance of roughly 3.5 astronomical units

Picture credits

Luhman 16 Pictures
NASA/IPAC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
NASA/JPL/Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

[plasmaBR]

I've always found Brown Dwarfs to be fascinating. Great video!

[costrio]

I like your presentations. No long intros with basic facts endlessly repeated, IMO. You get to the point, bringing unusual and current information. I gained some very good, new insights today by watching this video and I've been following the lastest astronomy news for decades. So congratulations. IMO, you are an inovator and deserve more viewership and success. (just an opinion from a noboby.)

[KendrixTermina]

its cool how they actually look like a middle thing between stars & big planets

[LuisAldamiz]

Fascinating! I'm pretty sure very few people know about these neighbors of us.

[smithkurtid]

So under-rated, come on algorithm, do your job

[relarin]

It's really fascinating to think we are just starting to really expand our understanding of space

[gandalf_thegrey]

great video mate, keep up the good work

[wallrider]

3:25 class M stars are red dwarf stars, and thus are true stars that fuse light hydrogen into helium in a span of 1-10 trillion years.

[yep-its-them]

very interesting and easy to understand <3

[Wheretherivermeets]

That it might appear magenta, a color that doesn't actually exist as a singular color, seems interesting but unlikely.

[costrio]

Any planet nearby would get the same "keep warm" treatment as my burger while waiting for the fries to cook in a fast food restaurant? Under the red lights?

[RayMapa]

M types are Stars that fuse Hydrogen (aka not a brown dwarf)

[noahpilarski]

2:06 & 5:19
Do you have the texture of luhman A and the pink/red luhman B? I want them, if possible.

[goldiz]

This could potentially change our understanding of gas giants?

[melophilnik]

I don't understand why you have less subscribers ?💔

[JelenaKesa]

So wait luhman 16A is saturn sized
And luhman 16B is same size as jupiter?

[stefanocuticone]

what software do you use to navigate through space like that?

[lukaslukas]

Maybe Jupiter will become brown dwarf, when our sun becomes white dwarf, It would be a brown dwarf orbiting a white dwarf system.

[deepcosmiclove]

Has any telescope ever gotten a disk on a star, any star? All these images of a brown dwarf are completely imaginary. In any telescope it's just a point of light.

[costrio]

If a red star can fuse hydrogen into deuterium isotopes, what kind of chemical creations are happening in Jupiter's atmosphere? Sure, there is stratification of denser/lighter elements, but the volatility of the planet's winds must stir up some fancy chemical solutions, I'd think.