Possibly the smallest stars ever found
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA)
The border between what is a star and what is a planet is blurry, and new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it even much less clear. These objects seem to be brown dwarfs, generally known as failed stars, however they’re nearer in dimension to massive planets – they may be the smallest stars ever spotted.
Kevin Luhman at the Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues spotted these three our bodies in a star-forming cluster referred to as IC 348, which is about…