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Webb Detects Aurora on Free-Floating Brown Dwarf


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found evidence for the deposition of energy into the upper atmosphere of the nearby brown dwarf SIMP J013656.5+093347.3 by an aurora.

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