Tiniest stars not much larger than Jupiter

Astronomers believe they've spotted the tiniest stars: brown dwarfs only a few times the size of Jupiter, lurking dimly in the darkest depths of space. Yes, Jupiter is a standard unit of mass!

'For the first time, you can actually look for objects down to at least a couple of Jupiter masses,' says Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and member of one team.

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