Luhman 16
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Luhman 16 is a binary system of two brown dwarfs, located in the southern constellation Vela at a distance of 6.51 light-years from the Sun. These are the closest-known brown dwarfs and the closest sy
Luhman 16 with VLT's MUSE instrument in visible light
WISE image of Luhman 16. In the GMOS image in the inset, it is resolved into a pair.
2013 Chelyabinsk meteor trace
Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer was a NASA infrared astronomy space telescope in the Explorers Program launched in December 2009. WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clust
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