An international team of astronomers recently found not one, but two of the strangest and rarest of all cosmic objects, and in the same star system no less.

Called brown dwarfs, these peculiar objects are invaluable resources for learning about the formation of stars, planets, and systems.

These would-be stars fail to accumulate enough mass and heat to perform continuous nuclear fusion of hydrogen molecules, and so slowly cool and harden as the years go by until they look and feel more like a planet than a star.

Being thusly cold but also small, they’re really hard to find with even a sophisticated telescope, so imagine the astronomers’ surprise when they found not one, but two—orbiting not one, but two stars.

Called a “double-double” by one member of the team, representing universitie

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