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Brown Dwarfs: Crash Course Astronomy #28

Season 1 Episode 28

While Jupiter is nowhere near massive enough to initiate fusion in its core, there are even more massive objects out there that fall just short of that achievement as well called brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs, have a mass that places them between giant planets and small stars.

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