Brown dwarfs that look pulsars

2007/06/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Astronomia

In New Mexico, with a VLA radio telescope, they observe a new phenomenon: brown dwarfs, like pulses, emit strong radio pulses. Brown dwarfs are interstellar and planetary sized bodies. Their size and mass are excessively reduced to produce the nuclear fusion that usually occurs in the stars, so they present in space an appearance of dark and inert bodies. Seeing that these types of bodies emit radio pulses has aroused the curiosity of astronomers.