Merle Schrader

PhD candidate, Trinity College Dublin School of Physics

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Webb telescope finds orderly weather on a turbulent brown dwarf

First author of the Astronomy & Astrophysics study on SIMP 0136

A brown dwarf 20 light-years away looks chaotic through a telescope. Astronomers at Trinity College Dublin found its atmosphere runs on a surprisingly orderly system, with three recurring weather states rotating in and out of view.

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