'Failed stars' host powerful auroral displays: Astronomers say brown dwarfs behave more like planets than stars

By observing a brown dwarf 20 light-years away using both radio and optical telescopes, astronomers have found that such so-called failed stars host powerful auroras near their magnetic poles -- additional evidence that brown dwarfs are more like giant planets than small stars.
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