Astronomers observed that the two massive, gassy heavenly bodies orbit each other.
A pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229ba and Gliese 229bb. Gliese 229b, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until now astronomers thought they were observing a single body not two.
Rebecca Oppenheimer was a graduate student member of the Caltech team that first discovered Gliese 229B. As an author of the APL report, she’s thrilled anew — because she and her team again witnessed a novel phenomenon — two brown dwarfs closely orbiting each other.
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