Chilly starlike orb found just a few light-years away
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WISE J085510.83-071442.5, seen in an artist’s illustration, is the coldest brown dwarf known and the newly minted fourth closest star to the sun. The surface temperature is a chilly -48 to -13 degrees Celsius.
NASA, JPL-Caltech, Penn State University