• Question: are failed stars actually called brown dwarfs

    Asked by bank520prep on 15 Jan 2025.
    • Photo: Sheridan Williams

      Sheridan Williams answered on 15 Jan 2025:

      Also white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes can be classed as ‘failed’ (i.e. at the end of their life or never got started).

    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 22 Jan 2025:

      A big gas planet much better than Gas Giants, but not big enough to ignite and be a star would be a Brown Drawf – an almost-but-not-quite-star

    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 13 Feb 2025:

      Yes… a Kirsty says very large gas giant planets that fail to become stars are called brown dwarves.

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