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NASA s Webb identifies tiniest free-floating brown dwarf psu.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from psu.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
<p>Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf with only three to four times the mass of Jupiter. A paper describing the observations appeared today (Dec. 13) in the <a href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ad00b7">Astronomical Journal</a>.</p>