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Article: New type of star identified.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- January 27, 2003
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2003 JAN 27 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Astronomers announced at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle, Washington, that they have confirmed the existence of a new variety of stellar end-product.
This previously unknown type of star has some properties similar to brown dwarf stars and may help astronomers understand some of the recently discovered extra-solar planets in close proximity to their suns, say Steve B. Howell, University of California, Riverside, and Tom Harrison, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
The newly discovered type of star resides in a binary star system known as EF Eridanus with an estimated distance of 300 ...