Brown Dwarfs: Space s Strangely Important Oddballs

Go to https://NordVPN.com/SPACE to get 75% off a 3 year plan and use code SPACE to get an additional month for free. You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the universe is more complicated and interesting than that. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/aadadc/meta https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.00277 https://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-01162-2_4 https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-webb-telescope-to-investigate-mysterious-brown-dwarfs https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/dark_matter2.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8851-brown-dwarfs-weighed-directly-for-first-time/ http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/brown_dwarfs.html https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question62.html http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/09/are-brown-dwarfs-stars-planets-or-neither http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/05/09/brown-dwarf-rogue-planet-pulsar/#.XWkG4JNKjUK Image Sources: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/superflares-from-young-red-dwarf-stars-imperil-planets https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/science/solar-anatomy.html https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/planet-what-is/en/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/infographic.view.php?id=10685 https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1450/scientists-improve-brown-dwarf-weather-forecasts/ https://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/images/content/718050main_pia16609-640.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/images/content/718055main_pia16608-full.jpg https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1450/scientists-improve-brown-dwarf-weather-forecasts/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010600/a010659/index.html https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blausen_0527_Hydrogen-2_Deuterium.png https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a012600/a012660/Dwarf_Scale_Final_5k.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_the_expected_dark_matter_distribution_around_the_Milky_Way.ogv https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21752-16.gif