This artist animation shows a brown dwarf surrounded by a swirling disc of planet-building dust. NASA Spitzer Space Telescope spotted such a disc around a surprisingly low-mass brown dwarf, or failed star.
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Title: Birth of an Unusual Planetary System Artist Concept
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Date Created: 2005-02-08
Rights: JPL
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