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Brown Dwarf Weather (Artist's Concept)
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This artist's concept animation shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen on Neptune and the other outer planets in the solar system. By using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found that the varying glow of brown dwarfs over time can be explained by bands of patchy clouds rotating at different speeds.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineBrown Dwarf Weather (Artist's Concept). NASA/JPL, 2017-08-17. Public domain. ID: PIA21752.
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