Your Weather Report From Across the Galaxy
Using very powerful telescopes, scientists have just created the first ever map of the weather on a brown dwarf! Using a clever technique astronomers were able to create a map of the dark and light patches on its surface. Soon, we will be able to watch cloud patterns form, evolve, and disappear — just like on Earth. This is an artists impression of how that brown dwarf looks.
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ESO/I. Crossfield/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)
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