ChaHa8
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ChaHα8 is a brown dwarf
star 522 light years from Earth discovered in 2007. It was found to have a companion object of 16-20 Jupiter mass
es in orbit around it with a period of 1590 days and an eccentricity of 0.49.
Brown dwarf
Brown dwarfs are sub-stellar objects which are too low in mass to sustain hydrogen-1 fusion reactions in their cores, which is characteristic of stars on the main sequence. Brown dwarfs have fully convective surfaces and interiors, with no chemical differentiation by depth...
star 522 light years from Earth discovered in 2007. It was found to have a companion object of 16-20 Jupiter mass
Jupiter mass
Jupiter mass , is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter . Jupiter mass is used to describe masses of the gas giants, such as the outer planets and extrasolar planets. It is also used in describing brown dwarfs....
es in orbit around it with a period of 1590 days and an eccentricity of 0.49.