Luhman 16 - The closest Brown Dwarfs to Earth

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  • čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
  • In our local galactic neighbourhood, lying 3rd closest to the earth is Luhman 16, this is a binary brown dwarf system. This star system consists of two brown dwarf stars. Luhman 16A is a L class brown dwarf. It would glow faintly red to our eyes. Studies have suggested that Luhman 16A has large bands similar to a gas giant planet.
    Luhman 16B is a T class brown dwarf. This would glow faintly pink or purple to our eyes. These brown dwarfs orbit their common centre of mass with a distance of roughly 3.5 astronomical units
    Picture credits
    Star and constellation maps NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Constellation figures based on those developed for the IAU by Alan MacRobert of Sky and Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott and Rick Fienberg) svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3895
    Luhman 16 Pictures
    NASA/IPAC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    NASA/JPL/Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    ESO/I. Crossfield www.eso.org/public/unitedking...
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Komentáře • 42

  • @plasma__
    @plasma__ Před rokem +17

    I've always found Brown Dwarfs to be fascinating. Great video!

  • @costrio
    @costrio Před rokem +15

    I like your presentations. No long intros with basic facts endlessly repeated, IMO. You get to the point, bringing unusual and current information. I gained some very good, new insights today by watching this video and I've been following the lastest astronomy news for decades. So congratulations. IMO, you are an inovator and deserve more viewership and success. (just an opinion from a noboby.)

  • @KendrixTermina
    @KendrixTermina Před rokem +5

    its cool how they actually look like a middle thing between stars & big planets

  • @LuisAldamiz
    @LuisAldamiz Před rokem +3

    Fascinating! I'm pretty sure very few people know about these neighbors of us.

  • @thomaswade3072
    @thomaswade3072 Před rokem +6

    That it might appear magenta, a color that doesn't actually exist as a singular color, seems interesting but unlikely.

  • @AAHAHHHHH
    @AAHAHHHHH Před 3 lety +6

    very interesting and easy to understand

  • @gandalf_thegrey
    @gandalf_thegrey Před rokem

    great video mate, keep up the good work

  • @relarin952
    @relarin952 Před 3 lety +4

    It's really fascinating to think we are just starting to really expand our understanding of space

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 3 lety +1

      Yes it is amazing how much we have learned in such a short space of time, and even that we are just scratching the surface.

  • @costrio
    @costrio Před rokem +1

    Any planet nearby would get the same "keep warm" treatment as my burger while waiting for the fries to cook in a fast food restaurant? Under the red lights?

  • @purifiedhealth08
    @purifiedhealth08 Před 2 lety +1

    it was pefect thanks
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  • @goldiz1978
    @goldiz1978 Před 4 měsíci

    This could potentially change our understanding of gas giants?

  • @RayMapa73
    @RayMapa73 Před 5 dny

    M types are Stars that fuse Hydrogen (aka not a brown dwarf)

  • @noahpilarski
    @noahpilarski Před 2 lety +1

    2:06 & 5:19
    Do you have the texture of luhman A and the pink/red luhman B? I want them, if possible.

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 2 lety +2

      I do have the textures, but before I make them available I have 2 questions. Do you plan to use them in a video? If so credit would be nice. I'm more than happy to help out other creators. Secondly, are you familiar with Blender? If not then the materials wouldn't be of much use to you.

    • @noahpilarski
      @noahpilarski Před 2 lety +2

      ​@@LearningCurveScience I know how to use blender. It isn't being used for a video. I'm using the textures to recreate the solar system and nearby ones in a mod for the video game "Outer Wilds". Credit can be given.

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 2 lety +5

      Apologies, I've been very busy with my proper job recently. Hope you liked it

    • @noahpilarski
      @noahpilarski Před 2 lety +4

      @@LearningCurveScience It works. Thank you very much!

  • @stefanocuticone5137
    @stefanocuticone5137 Před rokem

    what software do you use to navigate through space like that?

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před rokem

      I make all my videos using Blender. I do all the modelling and animation myself.

  • @JelenaKesa
    @JelenaKesa Před 3 lety +5

    So wait luhman 16A is saturn sized
    And luhman 16B is same size as jupiter?

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 3 lety +6

      It's a little bigger than Saturn, but yes it would appear to be, I think I worked it out at about 122,000 km for Luhman 16A (ish)

    • @JelenaKesa
      @JelenaKesa Před 3 lety +3

      I Love your video :)

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 3 lety +4

      Thank you very much. That's very nice of you to say.

  • @melophilnik0430
    @melophilnik0430 Před 2 lety +1

    I don't understand why you have less subscribers ?💔

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 2 lety +1

      Thank you. I just enjoy making videos, and if people enjoy watching them, then that's a lovely bonus.

  • @costrio
    @costrio Před rokem

    If a red star can fuse hydrogen into deuterium isotopes, what kind of chemical creations are happening in Jupiter's atmosphere? Sure, there is stratification of denser/lighter elements, but the volatility of the planet's winds must stir up some fancy chemical solutions, I'd think.

    • @safeysmith6720
      @safeysmith6720 Před rokem

      Whatever is happening within Jupiter… it isn’t fusion.

  • @deepcosmiclove
    @deepcosmiclove Před 5 měsíci

    Has any telescope ever gotten a disk on a star, any star? All these images of a brown dwarf are completely imaginary. In any telescope it's just a point of light.

  • @raffaellouis4326
    @raffaellouis4326 Před rokem

    When the planet Jupiter and Saturn have Parents

  • @katgore17
    @katgore17 Před 7 měsíci +1

    645 likes

  • @discordgg5290
    @discordgg5290 Před 2 lety

    m type stars are red dwarfs not brown dwarfs and they die unlike brown dwarfs and their mass is from 80 jupiters to half the mass of our amazing sun

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před rokem +2

      Each stellar class has a number of subdivisions. You are quite right that red dwarf stars are class M, but the hottest brown dwarfs are also class M but a different sub-group. I hope that clears it up for you.

    • @djones3021
      @djones3021 Před rokem

      Sit down teacher is speaking!

  • @vuurwater6784
    @vuurwater6784 Před 7 měsíci

    PlanetXnews

  • @johntoemilytransitionvlog9418

    Brown Dwarfs are not True Stars

    • @LearningCurveScience
      @LearningCurveScience  Před 2 lety +2

      Interesting, they share some features with stars (nuclear fusion) and are classified with stars, but there are some differences. They get dimmer with age and lose the ability to fuse deuterium. I find them fascinating because until relatively recently we didn't even know they existed.

    • @johntoemilytransitionvlog9418
      @johntoemilytransitionvlog9418 Před 2 lety +1

      @@LearningCurveScience They are called Failed Stars. They started out red hot soon cool down over time. They share a lot feature with Gas Giants like Jupiter and Saturn. Brown Dwarf between Gas Giant and Red Dwarf Stars. I love Brown Dwarf.

  • @upsguppy520
    @upsguppy520 Před 2 lety +1

    stars are electric and get thier power from briland currents that connect the universe to itself pos and neg attractrion and replusion gas and dust is all you need to make and describe our universe