SpaceRef - Apr. 11, 2007
Astronomers have serendipitously discovered a record-breaking pair of low-mass stars with an extreme orbital separation. The petite objects, each of which has a mass less than 100 times that of Jupiter, are separated by more than 5,000 times the distance between the Sun and Earth a value that breaks the previous record by a factor of three and leaves the duration of their future together uncertain...