What Are Brown Dwarfs? Episode 8

Hostile Worlds by The Podcast Host

Apr 4, 201811:45Science & Medicine

The Brown Dwarf. Is it a star? Is it a planet? Is it a tabletop war gaming miniature? Is it an obscure Red Dwarf fan fiction series? We need speculate no more, as observational astronomer Dr. Aleks Scholz of St. Andrews...

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