{"id":227198,"date":"2025-12-16T01:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/astronomers-find-planetary-and-stellar-companions-to-two-ultracool-dwarfs-in-taurus"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:45:30","slug":"astronomers-find-planetary-and-stellar-companions-to-two-ultracool-dwarfs-in-taurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/astronomers-find-planetary-and-stellar-companions-to-two-ultracool-dwarfs-in-taurus","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find planetary and stellar companions to two ultracool dwarfs in Taurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-planetary-and-stellar-companions-to-two-ultracool-dwarfs-in-taurus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers from the University of Hawai\u2019i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which resulted in the discovery of planetary-mass and stellar companions of two ultracool dwarf stars. The new finding was <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2512.05191\" target=\"_blank\">presented in a paper<\/a> published December 4 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Taurus molecular cloud (TMC-1) is an interstellar molecular cloud hosting a stellar nursery, which contains hundreds of newly formed stars. Given that TMC-1 is located only 430 light years away from Earth, it is possibly the nearest large region of star formation.<\/p>\n<p>The relatively young age of this region, estimated to be some 1\u20135 million years old, makes it an excellent window for astronomers into the earliest stages of wide-orbit planet and brown dwarf formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers from the University of Hawai\u2019i (UH) at Manoa and elsewhere have observed the Taurus star-forming region, which resulted in the discovery of planetary-mass and stellar companions of two ultracool dwarf stars. The new finding was presented in a paper published December 4 on the pre-print server arXiv. Taurus molecular cloud (TMC-1) is an interstellar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227198","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}