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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz Got a minute?
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2 .Call this story, "A star is stillborn."
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3 .The object is a brown dwarf, which started off the same way that more conventional stars form,
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4 .but which lacked the mass required for nuclear fusion to ignite and radiate starlight.
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5 .What resulted was a body somewhere in between a star and a planet.
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6 .It was spotted recently by NASA's WISE and Spitzer space telescopes.
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7 .And it's been dubbed WISE J085510.83-071442.5.
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8 .So let's not say its name again, okay?
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9 .At only about three to 10 times the mass of Jupiter, this WISE guy is small even for a brown dwarf.
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10 .It's the fourth-nearest star system, just 7.2 light-years away.
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11 .And it's freezing, about as cold as the North Pole.
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12 .Temperatures on this body range from a frosty minus 54 to plus 9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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13 .For comparison, the sun's surface is a toasty 10,000 Fahrenheit.
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14 .Noticing such a cold object in space that radiates almost no light would be impossible with visible-light telescopes.
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15 .Its dim thermal glow was just barely discernible to the infrared eyes of WISE and Spitzer.
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16 .And its name ensures mostly continued anonymity.
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17 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz.
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