Astronomers have discovered a new star system just 6.5 light years away....

Makes you wonder what else they don't know about...



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Looks like astronomers may have new hunting grounds to search for exoplanets , and it’s close– in fact it’s just in our local interstellar neighborhood. A new-found star system at only 6.5 light years away now ranks as the third nearest to our solar system and the closest to be discovered since 1917.

The new pair of stars are both classified as brown dwarfs– cool, dim objects that actually resemble planets more than stars.

While they do give off heat and have chemical properties like ordinary stars like our Sun, these weird objects are often referred to as ‘failed stars’ since they don’t quite have enough mass that would allow them to be crushed by gravity so that thermonuclear reactions can ignite the hydrogen in their cores.

[link to newswatch.nationalgeographic.com]