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IC 348, with tiny brown dwarfs

IC 348, with tiny brown dwarfs
IC 348, with tiny brown dwarfs Star-forming region IC 348, as imaged in the near-infrared by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The observations shown here were used to identify the least massive brown dwarfs known to date, roughly just twice the mass of Jupiter. ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Luhman, C. Alves De Oliveira, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)