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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 hours agoJupiter and Saturn are not brown dwarves. https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-why-is-jupiter-not-a-star-or-a-brown-dwarf/
minus-squareAnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-26 hours ago dated July 1997 issue of the magazine Here’s Jupiter on Wikipedia’s list of Y-class brown dwarves. Jupiter and Saturn are in fact brown dwarves. Stellar classes are OBAFGKMLTY, from most to least massive.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoDid you even read that page you linked to? Right at the top, it says: They are a mix of brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects.
minus-squareAnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·44 minutes agoYes. Y dwarf stars are a mix of what was previously classified under those mass classifications.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·40 minutes ago“Y dwarf stars” are not even a thing! Neither brown dwarfs nor planetary-mass objects are stars. Are you just a troll?
Jupiter and Saturn are not brown dwarves.
https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-why-is-jupiter-not-a-star-or-a-brown-dwarf/
Here’s Jupiter on Wikipedia’s list of Y-class brown dwarves.
Jupiter and Saturn are in fact brown dwarves.
Stellar classes are OBAFGKMLTY, from most to least massive.
Did you even read that page you linked to? Right at the top, it says:
Yes.
Y dwarf stars are a mix of what was previously classified under those mass classifications.
“Y dwarf stars” are not even a thing!
Neither brown dwarfs nor planetary-mass objects are stars.
Are you just a troll?