First time they’ve seen one like this..

Just when astronomers really think they have figured things out, they find something completely unique.  If you are familiar with brown dwarf stars or not, they pretty much straddle the line between planets and stars, at least in the way we are able to understand them.  They are not considered to be either depending on who you ask:

There is a peculiar system 1,600 light-years from our solar system. It is composed of two brown dwarfs, massive objects too big to be planets and too small to fuse hydrogen and become stars. But that is not the strange part: Scientists have now discovered a Venus-sized planet around the smaller brown dwarf.

Let’s find out more on this mysterious planet on page 2

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