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A brown dwarf star is surrounded in this illustration by a disk of dust and gas—a miniature solar system in the making. An infrared telescope recently spotted just such a disk around a brown dwarf. That sighting and similar recent observations have blurred distinctions among stars, brown dwarfs, and planets. Credit: T. Pyle/Spitzer Science Center, JPL/NASA
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