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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Brown dwarfs are the oddballs of the cosmos, more massive than planets but not heavy enough to generate the thermonuclear fusion that powers real stars. Now astronomers have found the coldest brown dwarf to date.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The failed star might represent a new class of objects that are a missing link between planets and stars.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The cold brown dwarf floats freely in space, not bound to a star. Its mass is somewhere between 15 and 30 times that of Jupiter. And it is about 660 degrees Fahrenheit (350 Celsius), cooler than any other known object in its class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The surface of the sun is about 11,000 degrees F (6,000 degrees C). <span style="color:black">The temperature at the top of Jupiter's clouds is about -230 degrees F (-145 degrees C), though at its core the mercury soars to 43,000 degrees F (24,000 degrees C).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial">The brown dwarf, named CFBDS J005910.83-011401.3, is about 40 light-years from our solar system. It was found by an international team using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and Gemini North Telescope, both located in Hawaii, and the a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial">http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080410-cold-brown-dwarf.html</span></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>