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j.rubin

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Process of Science: The existence of brown dwarfs was predicted for decades before their discovery in 1995. Why did it take so long?
 
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During the Hayashi track, a star drops drastically in both ________ and ________.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Brown dwarfs are very faint, especially at optical wavelengths. It required new instrumentation that could see faint objects at infrared wavelengths before we could see brown dwarfs. The theory had to wait for the technology to advance to a state where it could test its predictions.

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size; luminosity


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