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A brown dwarf joins the jet-set

Jets of matter have been discovered around a very low mass "failed star," mimicking a process seen in young stars. This suggests that these "brown dwarfs" form in a similar manner to normal stars but also thatoutflows are driven out by objects as massive as hundreds of millions of solar masses down to Jupiter-sized objects.

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