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Striped or spotted? Winds and jet streams found on the closest brown dwarfBy: on January 7, 2021 at 6:56 pm Publication: Top Technology News — ScienceDaily

Using high-precision brightness measurements from NASA’s TESS space telescope, astronomers found that the nearby brown dwarf Luhman 16B’s atmosphere is dominated by high-speed, global winds akin to Earth’s jet stream system. This global circulation determines how clouds are distributed in the brown  Read More>>

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