First Global Map Outside the Solar System

First time accepted submitter Kreuzfeld writes "For many years, astronomers have suspected that brown dwarfs — 'failed stars' with masses between those of planets and stars — have cloudy atmospheres. Our recent paper in Nature presents the first global, 2D map of the patchy clouds in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf: our neighbor, the 6.5 light-years-distant Luhman 16B. Eventually, astronomers will use this technique to make weather movies of global cloud patterns on brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets."

Comments

Fascinating!

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The picture looks like 3 giant testicles. Do other distant brown dwarfs have the same 3 testicle look to them? Do creatures on other planets have 3 testicles, if they do indeed have testicles?

If other planetary life forms were divided in to two sexes, would one have 3 ovaries to compliment the others 3 testicles?

Testicles.