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brown dwarfs

brown dwarfs is the plural of brown dwarf.

Meaning of brown dwarf

Noun

brown dwarf (plural brown dwarfs or (rare) brown dwarves)

  1. A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.
    • But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades. […] “This places this object right on the lower boundary of allowed stellar masses, and it is in fact...2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024

Forms of brown dwarfs

alternative formbrown dwarves

Questions about brown dwarfs

What is brown dwarfs the plural of?
Brown dwarfs is the plural of brown dwarf.

Words near brown dwarfs in the dictionary

  1. brown creeper
  2. brown creepers
  3. brown drake
  4. brown drakes
  5. brown dwarf
  6. brown dwarfs
  7. brown dwarves
  8. brown earth
  9. brown envelope journalism
  10. brown envelope syndrome
  11. brown eye

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