SPHEREx spots menagerie of brown dwarfs with atmospheric water and methane

October 8, 2026 · 6:22 pm 2 sources

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• NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope Sees Menagerie of Brown Dwarfs
  NASA · October 8, 2026 18:22
  NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) space telescope is shedding light on brown dwarfs, celestial objects that blur the line between stars and exoplanets. New findings published in The Astrophysical Journal show that these…

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• SPHEREx spots menagerie of brown dwarfs with atmospheric water and methane
  Phys.org · October 9, 2026 13:20
  NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the universe, Epoch of Reionization, and ices Explorer) space telescope is shedding light on brown dwarfs, celestial objects that blur the line between stars and exoplanets. New findings published in The Astrophysical Journal show that these…