We've detected a star barely hotter than a pizza oven – the coldest ever found to emit radio waves

  • Written by: Kovi Rose, Astrophysics PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
We've detected a star barely hotter than a pizza oven – the coldest ever found to emit radio wavesComposite: Chuck Carter / Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) and Philippe Donn (Pexels)

We have identified the coldest star ever found to produce radio waves – a brown dwarf too small to be a regular star and too massive to be a planet.

Our findings, published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, detail the detection of pulsed radio emission from...

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