Space


Recent Space Stories

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the centre. The star –– the point source to the left –– has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right).
A Jupiter-mass object may orbit a brown dwarf in a strange three-tier system that blurs the line between moons and planets.
Joshua Shavitupda