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Scientists just spotted an adorable star that barely even qualifies as one

Sometimes, scientists’ categories for things can be a little demeaning. For example: the “failed star” designation for objects that are larger than planets but smaller than stars.

About 600 light-years away, EBLM J0555-57Ab just barely missed the failed star category. But as will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, it’s just a hair over the boundary, making it one of the smallest stars we know of.

“Failed star” is actually a factual statement — it just means something isn’t large enough to manage to bang hydrogen atoms together to form helium, the basic process at the heart of a burning star.

EBLM J0555-57Ab looks a bit like it shouldn’t have made the cut: It’s only a tiny bit larger than Saturn, or about one-twelfth the size of our sun. Read more (7/12/17)

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@nasa I can’t wait to see all the new pictures of jupiters big red spot!! Jupiter himself doesnt know why earth keeps throwing these things at him…

what language do they speak at the center of the earth

why do you waste your time like this

because i literally have no life 

ha ha get it because i’m a planet with no life on it ha ha ha 

being uninhabitable is kinda lonely tho tbh someone move me closer to the sun pls

someone has waited their entire career to use this headline

i really looooove science. i love the scientific method. i love the mindset science invokes. weird ass chemistry biophysics and neuroscience and giant gaseous clouds in the universe and fricken volcanoes. just the fact that we know all we know. w o w

Ahh I’m really late but I wanted to draw some eclipse lesbians !!

i hate when scientists are like ‘this planet cant have aliens on it because there’s no water! the atmosphere is wrong! theres not enough heat to sustain life!’ because dude theyre aliens, nobodys saying they need any of those things to exist

math class

pluto does not approve of math, because pluto did not want to be found

leave pluto alone 2k16