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This graph of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that an extraordinarily low-mass brown dwarf, or "failed star," is circled by a disk of planet-building dust. The brown dwarf, called OTS 44, is only 15 times the mass of Jupiter, making it the smallest known brown dwarf to host a planet-forming disk.

Spitzer was able to see this unusual disk by measuring its infrared brightness. Whereas a brown dwarf without a disk (red dashed line) radiates infrared light at shorter wavelengths, a brown dwarf with a disk (orange line) gives off excess infrared light at longer wavelengths.ï¿½ This surplus light comes from the disk itself and is represented here as a yellow dotted line. Actual data points from observations of OTS 44 are indicated with orange dots. These data were acquired using Spitzer's infrared array camera.

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DescriptionSsc2005-06a.jpg	Planetary Building Blocks Found in Surprising Place
Date	4 July 2004
Source	https://gallery.spitzer.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-06a
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Permission (Reusing this file)	https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/copyright.shtml

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