WISE finds coolest brown dwarfs ever seen!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Aug 24, 2011 3:29 PMNov 19, 2019 10:02 PM

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How cool is this? Literally, the coolest: NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has found the lowest-temperature brown dwarfs ever seen, the tail end of the stellar class of brown dwarfs called Y dwarfs. How not hot are they? This one (called WISE 1828+2650 if you're playing brown dwarf bingo), spotted by WISE, has a surface temperature of 25° Celsius -- that's 80° Fahrenheit!

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