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Surprise, it's twins! A brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago is actually two circling each other

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Gliese 229B was the first known brown dwarf discovered 30 years ago .

Brown dwarfs are sometimes called failed stars because they’re lighter than stars, but heavier than gas giant planets.

Astronomers collected light and chemical clues using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and observed it’s a duo circling close to each other.

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