Luhman 16 - The closest Brown Dwarfs to Earth
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 Published On Mar 4, 2021

In our local galactic neighbourhood, lying 3rd closest to the earth is Luhman 16, this is a binary brown dwarf system. This star system consists of two brown dwarf stars. Luhman 16A is a L class brown dwarf. It would glow faintly red to our eyes. Studies have suggested that Luhman 16A has large bands similar to a gas giant planet.

Luhman 16B is a T class brown dwarf. This would glow faintly pink or purple to our eyes. These brown dwarfs orbit their common centre of mass with a distance of roughly 3.5 astronomical units

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Star and constellation maps NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Constellation figures based on those developed for the IAU by Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott and Rick Fienberg) https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3895

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NASA/IPAC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
NASA/JPL/Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
ESO/I. Crossfield https://www.eso.org/public/unitedking...

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