Follow
Nasa scientists say they've spotted a mysterious object that's darting through space.
The object - which has been named CWISE J1249 - is estimated to be nearly 30,000 times larger than the size of Earth.
@peeppeepcircus @ecksmc 30,000x Earth's mass would make it a very low mass star, a red dwarf, about 100x Jupiter's mass, putting it near the bare minimum mass to ignite hydrogen fusion in its core. Such a star can fuse hydrogen for hundreds of billions of years or more, many times the current age of the universe.
Tbf to that BBC article "newsround" is kinda a children's news show thingy kinda why they never has a link to NASA release in it - I'd assume normal BBC article woulda linked NASA release in it
@ecksmc 👀 👀