Everything You Need To Know About Brown Dwarfs

Brown dwarfs are pretty odd objects: they're not stars, but not planets either. What makes them distinct from both stars and planets anyway?

More information:

Wikipedia article:

'Webb identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf'

'Are brown dwarfs stars, planets or neither?'

'Brown Dwarfs: The Coolest Stars or the Hottest Planets?'

'James Webb Space Telescope spots hint of mysterious aurora over "failed star'"'

'What Can We Learn From Brown Dwarf Atmospheres?'

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[EnduringFoliage]

One thing I love about Jupiter and its satellites is, even though it isn't a brown dwarf, it still still looks like a model of a solar system within our own.

[Ionee-qf]

brown dwarfs, and VERY small red dwarfs are some of my favorite objects in the universe! I'm not entirely sure why but i just find them pretty neat

[Flesh_Wizard]

- go to brown dwarf
- it's very dark
- turn on night vision goggles
- get flashbanged

[zam]

I suspect that they are going to be full of surprises
The bleeding edge of the fusion process
The possible weird chemical processes
Their huge size (compared to planets) creating crazy storms mixing it all up

[JJTheCardinal]

Thank you for making a video about Brown Dwarfs, they're my favourite space objects!

[leonleeds]

As usual, great video, one minor comment is the "cold" brown dwarf around 8:30 shouldn't have the minus on the 131C and 268F. Only noticed because I'd usually use 250 as a rough number to add to C to get K and ended up questioning that :). Anyway, brown dwarves are not one I've seen to much on so was good to learn some new stuff, especially around the blurred lines on classification of huge planet vs brown dwarf.

[btruj]

Thanks for clearing up the "failed star" myth about Jupiter. And I never knew there were variations of brown dwarves. Excellent video as always Blue. 👍 I look forward to the next one!

[jeshuamathis]

Thanks Bluedot. You choose the best topics

[nicholashylton]

Wonderful video! Clear and concise. (Subscribed)

[Treebeard]

Your content is excellent. You should have a million subscribers. I’m sharing this.

[ldubt]

Life could exist on planets around the most massive brown dwarves. Brown dwarves dont cool that quickly, if a planet is in the inner edge of the habitable zone at formation, it would still be on the outer edge of it by the time complex life could develop.

[AliHSyed]

This literally everything I wanted to know about Brown dwarfs presented by the most adorable host

[chumbucketjones]

It rains iron...Gonna need one hell of an umbrella.

[LonesomeTwin]

Thanks for this, brown dwarfs are a much under-sung species of space stuff. Loads I didn't know on this. To say thanks I'm currently watching (but ignoring!) a 12:38 🥺advert which I hope gets you a few cents at least. If I could afford Patreon, I would, you're a treasure.

[hanspeter]

Wow this video was just what i searched for. I read about Gliese 229Ba and Bb being found out be two seperate brown dwarfs and wanted to find out more. I swear i could listen to hours of this.

[RanDan]

Another excellent video, is a brown dwarfs future limited to being a brown dwarf. Can they merge or be pulled into existing systems or growing protoplanetary discs. I've heard red dwarf are the most numerous. Do brown dwarfs follow this trend.
Love your content, you've a unique delivery and I've noticed I'm not the only one caught in your gravity

[davidtatro]

Another enjoyable video! These objects are so interesting to me because they are so difficult to observe and to define. It's amazing that our technology has progressed enough to actually be able to spot so many of these given how tiny and dim they are. And yet they are paradoxically violent beyond our comprehension for objects that never ignite sustained hydrogen fusion.

I always wonder what we will end up calling cold, dead brown dwarfs. As you say, black dwarves is taken, even though they probably don't exist yet.

[KOZMOuvBORG]

0:37 interesting question: would "satellite[ 'follower' )" serve as an intermediate between planet & moon as brown dwarves employ deuterium fusion, which is short of stellar fusion (p+p to CNO 4:42 cycle).

[RSK]

Excellent video! Great Brown Dwarf 101!

[matthiasbroek]

Great content. And yes the solar eclipse was fantastic, first one for me. That one was on my bucket list. Now if we just can get some northern lights without cloud cover over where I live that would be great. Missed the last large flare eruption due to cloud cover.