WISE finds Y’s
Last call for WISE
February 17, 2011I saw WISE yesterday
January 21, 2012
WISE has discovered a new Y class of brown dwarf stars, the y dwarfs, which show methane, water and ammonia absorption. These stars have effective temperatures as low as 300 K, about room temperature.
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Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
