There is plenty of scientific possibility in the discovery of exothings, and also comfort. Not to be dramatic, but Earth is a small island in an endless sea. Ours is a cosmically lonely existence.
When Melodie Kao, an astronomer at UC Santa Cruz, went looking for exothings, she set her sights 20 light-years away, on a brown dwarf—a rather unusual object that is neither a star nor a planet, with a mass somewhere between the two.
Publisher: The Atlantic
Date: 2023-05-18T12:00:00Z
Author: Marina Koren
Twitter: @theatlantic
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