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Webb Finds Signs of Patchy Water Clouds on Coldest Known Brown Dwarf


Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured the first time-resolved, medium-resolution spectra of WISE J085510.83-071442.5, an ultracool brown dwarf just 7.4 light-years away, and found that its atmosphere is anything but static.

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