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Birth of an Unusual Planetary System Artist Concept
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Birth of an Unusual Planetary System Artist Concept

NASA / JPL · 2005-02-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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This artist animation shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disc of planet-building dust. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope spotted such a disc around a surprisingly low-mass brown dwarf, or failed star.

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OTS 44Spitzer Space Telescope
Credit lineBirth of an Unusual Planetary System Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2005-02-08. Public domain. ID: PIA07335.
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