Some stellar objects simply don’t have what it takes to become stars. Namely ... we’ve known of about 3000 brown dwarfs, but they all live inside our own galaxy,” team member Elena ...

Both the planet and brown dwarf are orbiting low-mass stars, a scenario thought to be ... most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy. Spinning slowly, it scanned the sky with two optical ...

How did our galaxy first form ... of stellar orbits change as a function of increasing metallicity of the stars, said Brown. The Milky Way is still dealing with disruption from ancient collisions.