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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a pair of stars that has taken over the title for the third-closest star system to the sun. The duo is the closest star system discovered since 1916. Both stars in the new binary system are "brown dwarfs," which are stars that are too small in mass to ever become hot enough to ignite hydrogen fusion. As a result, they are very cool and dim, resembling a giant planet like Jupiter more than a bright star like the sun.
WISE completed its all-sky survey in 2011, after surveying the entire sky twice at infrared wavelengths. The maps have been released to the public, but an ongoing project called "AllWISE" will combine data from both sky scans. AllWISE will provide a systematic search across the sky for the nearby moving stars... and also uncover fainter objects from the distant universe.
any star that appeared to early astronomers to be in a fixed position when compared to other stars, in contrast to the planets, which were thought to be moving stars
Definition of MOVING CLUSTER
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: a cluster of stars that have common motions in space
Originally posted by radpetey
They are also buttering us up, so to speak, with these commercials warning us to be prepared for a potential catastrophic event......no, nothing to see here-move on
Originally posted by FlyInTheOintment
reply to post by siliconpsychosis
any star that appeared to early astronomers to be in a fixed position when compared to other stars, in contrast to the planets, which were thought to be moving stars
Definition 1 disagrees... Planets were referred to as wandering stars.
Definition of MOVING CLUSTER
1
: a cluster of stars that have common motions in space
Definition 2 seems to be a bit open-ended compared with your definition, and says nothing about brown dwarfs..
sou rce, search it and see...
edit on 1-4-2013 by FlyInTheOintment because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by radpetey
reply to post by FlyInTheOintment
I agree.....They didn't scrap our shuttle program for no reason. They know something is coming!!
I know that a lot of you are offended when someone quotes the Bible; but you will grow up and get over it
Originally posted by tinhattribunal
reply to post by Ghost375
oh noes!
now there are two nibiroos!
what are we to doo!
Originally posted by azureskys
reply to post by ,
Ghost375, do you, or anyone else, happen to know what the number's "03.11.13" over top of the
photo at the OP's link are for ?edit on 1-4-2013 by azureskys because: added more