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‘Shocking’ discovery by James Webb Space Telescope may point to hidden exomoon around ‘failed star’

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have made the surprising discovery of methane emissions from a brown dwarf, or “failed star.” The finding suggests that the brown dwarf has auroras and may even be orbited by an undiscovered exomoon, the researchers said. The JWST brown dwarf discovery is surprising because these cold, isolated… Read More »