Brown dwarfs—star-potential

• Brown dwarfs are bodies too small to be a star and too big to be a planet.

• They are considered wish stars that didn’t reach the mass necessary to ignite nuclear fusion.

• They are more massive than the biggest planets.

• They can burn heavy form of hydrogen, deuterium, but not the most common basic form.

• Recent research found two brown dwarfs orbiting close to each other and circling a small star.

• These two brown dwarfs are gravitationally locked in a binary system, a rare arrangement among brown dwarfs.

• They are located 19 light-years from our solar system in the constellation Lepus.