#brown dwarf

OK FINISHEDDDD. ✨💫

I finally got caught up on Solarballs, and DAMN. These rogue planets are something else. While SIMP is more of a army general or commander, OTS seems like she's really the one pulling the strings throughout all of this (Queen OTS lwky)

She is def powerful. Queen or Empress, OTS gives off goddess energy. And I'm here for it. 👑

A well-studied cosmic object has stunned astronomers. The "failed star" Gliese 229B has been revealed to be two so-called "brown dwarfs" that are closely orbiting each other rather than just one. The revelation means that Gliese 229B is a "first-of-its-kind" tight brown dwarf binary, increasing the hope other such exotic systems dwell in the Milky Way just waiting to be discovered. The finding also solves a long-standing mystery about Gliese 229B, explaining why this brown dwarf appears too dim for its mass.  "Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf," team member and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) researcher Jerry W. Xuan said in a statement. "And now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two. We just weren't able to probe separations this close until now."

time to do what i said i was gonna do. POST ART this is a "render" (put a texture onto a ball in map to globe and edited it) of the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. Its mostly based on real simulations for brown dwarf cloud patterns and a drawing a friend on discord made.

simulations and stuff below the cut probably (i dont know if its actually below it)

Web Hunts for the Lower Mass Limit of Brown Dwarfs

What's the lowest mass a brown dwarf could be ? Not an easy question to answer when so few are known, but JWST has been able to peer through the dust and gas of star forming regions, and pick out brown dwarfs as they are made.

Peering into the Flame Nebula, NGC 2024 it has been able to catalogue a significant number, and as the mass reduces, so does the quantity of finds, down to in or around 2-3 Jupiter masses.

1: Trans-Plutonian planet (Boreas)

2: Chrysalis

3: Neith

4: Triton's Binary partner (Amphitrite)

5: Coatlicue

6: Nemesis

(Boreas is a planet)

Entry 76 - A new year comes with new shenanigans

07:37:53 20-01-3312 Inner Orion Spur | Hollatja

It's the new year, and I've obviously made it to the Bubble once more. I took some time off to be with friends for the holidays, and think about my game-plan for acquiring enough credits for a fleet carrier. The exobiology gig is mad for credits. It feels like a money cheat code. My friends are quite a bit shocked just how much pay you really get by doing it. A dangerous job when doing it in deep space all by your lonesome, and takes quite a bit of know-how, but all of the work so worth the money you make from it.

Though, I have discovered a new "risk", as it were. I spoke to my friend L about the whole exobiology thing, and he showed some interest in potentially getting a bunch of credits for a better (and larger) ship. I'd already gotten the Cobra MK V and kitted it out for exobiology, and I showed him the ropes. We were having a great time. And then, the shenanigans started.

Usually I'm incredibly careful when flying, or when I'm on-foot on a planet. I think a lot of the caution I have is because I usuallly do everything by myself in deep space- if I get hurt, I'm totally screwed. I cannot rely upon anyone else to help me in deep space, I can only rely on myself. So I'm very careful and take precautions and don't usually do stupid shit (usually being the key word, here). But because we were in the Bubble and on an inhabited planet, and we were together…we got a little rowdy. A bit too rowdy, actually.

Almost landing on each other's heads while jetpacking to and from different biological signatures type of rowdy. Standing right on top of the engines as the ship takes off kind of rowdy.

L getting severely injured as a result and needing to go to the hospital immediately type of rowdy.

Yeah, I know. It's stupid reckless deadly insane shit, but when I'm with L it's like all of my caution is thrown to the wind. Our ability to get into the funniest, silliest and craziest of situations is limitless. It's like I forget the universe is a dangerous place, and that my ship is a deadly metal projectile. I feel awful for what happened, but so does he, since he was the one that brought up the idea in the first place (but who is the worse fool, the fool who leads or the fool who follows him?). We've both agreed that we are both to blame, and we've both decided to not get rowdy anymore and to take our outings seriously. Live and learn, and all that.