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First Brown Dwarf Discovered Actually Twins, What Happened When a Large Meteorite Hit Earth, and TDIH - Yahoo Buys Four11

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It has been revealed that the first brown dwarf ever discovered is actually twins and we look at what happened to Earth when a meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest hit our planet. Plus, on This Day in History, Yahoo makes a purchase to offer free email to their customers. ‘It’s twin’ twist: Astronomers solve 29-year-old brown dwarf mystery (msn.com) It's twins! Mystery of famed brown dwarf solved | ScienceDaily First Brown Dwarf Discovered is Actually Twins | AMNH The cool brown dwarf Gliese 229 B is a close binary | Nature What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth? | ScienceDaily Yahoo buys Four11 for free email - CNET The history of Yahoo, and how it went from phenom to has-been - Fast Company Contact the show - [email protected] Thank you to our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by Incogni. Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code COOLSTUFF at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/coolstuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rizu alongside Marcus Path. On today's episode, it has been revealed that the first brown dwarf ever discovered

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is actually twins, and we look at what happened to Earth when a meteorite four times a size

1:16.3

of Mount Everest hit our planet.

1:18.5

And on this day in history, Yahoo makes a purchase to offer free email to their customers.

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There are billions of brown dwarfs in the Milky Way, or at least that

1:29.0

is the current belief. However, most of them go undetected. Brown dwarfs are lighter than stars,

1:35.2

but heavier than gas giants like Jupiter, and they are dim compared to their size. In 1995,

1:40.9

scientists observed one for the first time, which started a cascade of brown dwarf

1:45.3

discoveries. However, the first known brown dwarf Gleas 229B seemed a bit off. It was too dim

1:52.2

for its mass and defied expectations. Why was its shine so faint when it was 70 times the mass

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