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Luhman 16 B
Proxima Centauri
T-type brown dwarf star
Luhman 16 B
A brown dwarf with clouds and weather, too small to shine like a star.
Luhman 16 B is the cooler T-type member of the nearest known brown-dwarf binary system. It is massive enough to glow from its own heat but too light to sustain ordinary hydrogen fusion, with patchy clouds that make its brightness change as it rotates.
- diameter
- ~152,000 km
- Mass
- ~29 Jupiter masses
- Composition
- Hydrogen, helium, and molecular clouds
- Orbits
- Luhman 16 binary system
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