SciShow Space

Brown Dwarfs: Space's Strangely Important Oddballs (2019x83)

Air date: Oct 15, 2019

You’d think it would be easy to tell if an object in space was a star or a planet - is it big, hot, and shining? It’s a star! Small, cool, and made of rock and gas? Planet! But cosmic oddities know as brown dwarfs remind us that the universe is more complicated and interesting than that.