Distant giant planets form differently than ‘failed stars’

A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed the formation process of giant exoplanets and brown dwarfs, a class of objects that are more massive than giant planets, but not massive enough to ignite nuclear fusion in their cores to shine like true stars.

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https://phys.org/news/2020-02-distant-giant-planets-differently-stars.html