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Robert Lea

James Webb Space Telescope spies record-breaking 'failed star' that shouldn't exist (video)

The star cluster IC 348 as seen by the JWST and where it spotted three "failed star" brown dwarfs. A pink and purple red gaseous nebula fills the image, many bright twinkling stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a record-breaking free-floating brown dwarf and two other so-called "failed stars" in a young star cluster just 1,000 light-years from Earth.

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