{"id":202083,"date":"2024-12-21T06:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/brown-dwarfs-the-stars-that-fail"},"modified":"2024-12-21T06:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T12:16:06","slug":"brown-dwarfs-the-stars-that-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/brown-dwarfs-the-stars-that-fail","title":{"rendered":"Brown dwarfs: The stars that \u2018fail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V7dSlRwMiRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brown dwarfs are curious celestial bodies that appear to straddle the mass divide between stars and planets. Often referred to as \u201cfailed stars,\u201d brown dwarfs form in isolation from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust like a star.<\/p>\n<p>However, while fully-fledged stars continue to gather material from the gas and dust cloud that births them, brown dwarfs are less successful at this mass harvesting. As a result, they don\u2019t reach the masses of the smallest stars and can\u2019t trigger the process that defines main sequence stars, like our sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown dwarfs are curious celestial bodies that appear to straddle the mass divide between stars and planets. Often referred to as \u201cfailed stars,\u201d brown dwarfs form in isolation from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust like a star. However, while fully-fledged stars continue to gather material from the gas and dust cloud that births [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}