
Record-Setting Winds on a Nearby Brown Dwarf
Author(s) -
Katherine Kornei
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2020eo142824
Subject(s) - geology , brown dwarf , geography , meteorology , climatology , astronomy , physics , stars
Infrared and radio observations reveal zonal winds moving faster than 2,000 kilometers per hour on a “failed star” in our celestial neighborhood.