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Star Smaller Than Some Planets Found

Posted by Zonk on from the on-the-way-to-a-hole-in-space dept.

Abhishek writes "Astronomers have found the tiniest full-fledged star known, an object just 16 percent bigger than Jupiter. It is smaller than some known planets that orbit other stars. The star is a companion to a Sun-like star toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. It was found and measured by observing changes in the light output of the system when the smaller star passes in front of the larger star from our vantagepoint. This would give a better idea of brown dwarfs or failed stars. The star has been named OGLE-TR-122b. This discovery also marks the possibility of stars that look strikingly like planets."

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  1. GREAT NEW STORY!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Posted a minute after my conspiratory post on that last piece of shit item from deutscheland (irrelevant to my post's details about the fkn snail pace of /. today)