Brown dwarfs are failures in the star-making business, but they appear to be successes in the planet-making arena.
Astronomers have had evidence for several years that brown dwarfs—objects too heavy to be planets but too small to shine as stars do—are sometimes surrounded by swirling disks of gas and dust (SN: 2/5/05, p.
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