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Have you ever wondered what kind of astronomical object brown dwarfs are? They're too big to be a planet, yet too small to be a star. They're like the cosmic middle child. Here's everything you need to know about brown dwarfs.
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SOURCES

Shiv S Kumar's Original Work:
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/p...
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/p...

Classification:
https://academic.oup.com/ptp/article/...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.01943
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04667
https://www.nature.com/articles/336656a0
https://astronomy.com/magazine/greate...

Planetary Formation:
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/l...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful...
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0511420
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704118

"50 Years of Brown Dwarfs":
https://link.springer.com/book/10.100...

Spectra:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07771
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7491492/
https://prc.nao.ac.jp/extra/uos/en/no12/

Fusion:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

IAU Defintion:
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Brown Dwarf Exoplanet System:
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Planetary Formation:
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Black Hole Simulations:
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TIME CODES

00:00 Cold Open
00:33 History
01:44 Color
02:23 Size
03:20 Merch Promotion
03:35 Brown dwarf's are not stars.
04:11 Hydrogen Fusion
04:43 HR Diagrams
05:39 Jupiter: Failed Star?
06:06 Brown dwarf's are not planets.
06:53 Planetary Formation
07:28 Definitions
08:40 Deuterium Fusion
09:55 Problems with Classification
10:33 Brown Dwarf Life Cycle
12:12 Summary
13:18 Sponsor Message
14:09 Featured Comment