NRAO Highlights: The Very Large Array Measures the Wind Speed of a Brown Dwarf

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NRAO Highlights: The Very Large Array Measures the Wind Speed of a Brown Dwarf

NRAO Highlights: The Very Large Array Measures the Wind Speed of a Brown Dwarf

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to make the first measurement of wind speed on a brown dwarf — an object intermediate in mass between a planet and a star. Writing and narration provided by Phil Plait. Discover more about the wind speed of brown dwarfs from the original press release: https://public.nrao.edu/news/brown-dwarf-wind-speed/

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