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The strange case of the missing brown dwarf
The strange case of the missing dwarf
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/SCWXTnpg_GU/150218072759.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
The new SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to search for a brown dwarf expected to be orbiting the unusual double star V471 Tauri. SPHERE has given astronomers the best look so far at the surroundings of this intriguing object and they found -- nothing. The surprising absence of this confidently predicted brown dwarf means that the conventional explanation for the odd behaviour of V471 Tauri is wrong.
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