Striped or spotted? Winds and jet streams found on the closest brown dwarf

ScienceDaily
Jan 7, 2021, 1:56 pm114 pts
Using high-precision brightness measurements from NASA's TESS space telescope, astronomers found that the nearby brown dwarf Luhman 16B's atmosphere is dominated by high-speed, global winds akin to Earth's jet stream system. This global circulation determines how clouds are distributed in the brown dwarf's…

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