Teide 1. Artwork of the brown dwarf Teide 1 as seen from a hypothetical extrasolar planet. A brown dwarf is an intermediate object between a gas giant planet (like Jupiter) and a star. Teide 1 is massive enough,and therefore hot enough,to sustain lithium fusion in its core,but is unable to initiate hydrogen fusion like our sun. It burns at a temperature of 2,200 degrees Celsius,less than half as hot as the surface of our sun. Teide 1 lies around 400 light years from the Earth in the Pleiades star cluster | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Myers, Walter |
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