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Photographer:
Location:
Exposure type:		 Roth Ritter
Lamy, NM on 2007, Nov 7
LRGB (210:80:80:80)		 Telescope:
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Mounting:		 Takahashi FSQ-106ED @ f/5
SBIG STL-11000M, Filter set C L R G B
Paramount ME
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New observations of the Pleiades since 1995 have revealed several candidates of an exotic type of stars, or starlike bodies, the so-called Brown Dwarfs. These hitherto hypothetical objects are thought to have a mass intermediate between that of giant planets (like Jupiter) and small stars (the theory of stellar structure indicates that the smallest stars, i.e. bodies that produce energy by fusion somewhen in their lifetime, must have at least about 6..7 percent of one solar mass, i.e. 60 to 70 Jupiter masses). So brown dwarfs should have 10 to about 60 times the mass of Jupiter. They are assumed to be visible in the infrared light, have a diameter of about or less that of Jupiter (143,000 km), and a density 10 to 100 times that of Jupiter, as their much stronger gravity presses them tougher together.

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