Newly discovered binary star system only 6.5 light years from Earth

Posted by on March 11, 2013 Leave a comment (2) Go to comments

 It is lovingly named WISE J104915.57-531906

The distance was calculated using parallax.  Both stars appear to be brown dwarfs.

The paper: http://science.psu.edu/alert/photos/research-photos/astro/Luhman_ApJL_32013.pdf

Google+: View post on Google+

Google+

Leave a Reply