Super-cold, Super-close Brown Dwarf May Have Icy Clouds

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Scope Correspondent
posted October 12, 2014 at 5:34 pm

Brown dwarf W0855 was already special. A few times the size of Jupiter and super-cold, it’s halfway between a star and free-floating planet. Now ice clouds have been tentatively found in its atmosphere—which would mark the first time they’ve ever been seen on an extrasolar world…

This story appears in full on NOVA Next.

 

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Fruit Fly Fight Club

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Scope Correspondent
posted June 25, 2013 at 12:37 am

Hannah Cheng, Zahra Hirji and Sarah Yu investigate the genetics of aggression and depression in fruit flies.