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Brown dwarf and European Southern Observatory

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Difference between Brown dwarf and European Southern Observatory

Brown dwarf vs. European Southern Observatory

Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars, having masses between approximately 13 to 75–80 times that of Jupiter, or approximately to about. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a 15-nation intergovernmental research organization for ground-based astronomy.

Similarities between Brown dwarf and European Southern Observatory

Brown dwarf and European Southern Observatory have 18 things in common (in Unionpedia): Adaptive optics, Brown dwarf, Circumstellar habitable zone, Dark matter, Doppler spectroscopy, Exoplanet, Hubble Space Telescope, Infrared, International Astronomical Union, Jupiter, NASA, Neptune, Radial velocity, Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, Teide Observatory, The Astrophysical Journal, 2M1207, 2M1207b.

Adaptive optics

Adaptive optics (AO) is a technology used to improve the performance of optical systems by reducing the effect of incoming wavefront distortions by deforming a mirror in order to compensate for the distortion.

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Brown dwarf

Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the mass range between the heaviest gas giant planets and the lightest stars, having masses between approximately 13 to 75–80 times that of Jupiter, or approximately to about.

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Circumstellar habitable zone

In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure.

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Dark matter

Dark matter is a theorized form of matter that is thought to account for approximately 80% of the matter in the universe, and about a quarter of its total energy density.

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Doppler spectroscopy

Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star.

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Exoplanet

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside our solar system.

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Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation.

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Infrared

Infrared radiation (IR) is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with longer wavelengths than those of visible light, and is therefore generally invisible to the human eye (although IR at wavelengths up to 1050 nm from specially pulsed lasers can be seen by humans under certain conditions). It is sometimes called infrared light.

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International Astronomical Union

The International Astronomical Union (IAU; Union astronomique internationale, UAI) is an international association of professional astronomers, at the PhD level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

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Radial velocity

The radial velocity of an object with respect to a given point is the rate of change of the distance between the object and the point.

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Roque de los Muchachos Observatory

Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Spanish: Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos, ORM) is an astronomical observatory located in the municipality of Garafía on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands.

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Teide Observatory

Teide Observatory (Observatorio del Teide), IAU code 954, is an astronomical observatory on Mount Teide at, located on Tenerife, Spain.

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The Astrophysical Journal

The Astrophysical Journal, often abbreviated ApJ (pronounced "ap jay") in references and speech, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of astrophysics and astronomy, established in 1895 by American astronomers George Ellery Hale and James Edward Keeler.

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2M1207

2M1207, 2M1207A or 2MASS J12073346-3932539 is a brown dwarf located in the constellation Centaurus; a companion object, 2M1207b, may be the first extrasolar planetary-mass companion to be directly imaged, and is the first discovered orbiting a brown dwarf.

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2M1207b

2M1207b is a planetary-mass object orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207, in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 170 light-years from Earth.

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The list above answers the following questions

Brown dwarf and European Southern Observatory Comparison

Brown dwarf has 172 relations, while European Southern Observatory has 179. As they have in common 18, the Jaccard index is 5.13% = 18 / (172 + 179).

References

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