Thursday, April 17, 2008

Coolest Star Ever Detected

April 11, 2008 - Discovery Channel
A dim, lonely, weakling star with the lowest stellar temperature yet recorded has been found just 40 light-years from Earth.
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For that reason, the astronomers identified and studied CFBDS0059 with near-infrared and infrared instruments of the Canada France Hawaii and Gemini North telescopes in Hawaii and the European Southern Observatory's NTT telescope in Chile.
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