Latest Space Missions (& Other Science Stuff)

I know this was from that haha thread, but it fit better in here. This is a link I’m fond of, which is slightly out of date, but it provides a terrific overview of our universe from very close to Earth to as far as we can see pre-James Webb.

An Atlas of the Universe

I’m wondering if you meant brown dwarfs. I’m not sure how typical our local neighborhood is, but within 20 light years from the Sun, there are roughly 117 stars, and most of them are red dwarfs. There are two A Class white stars, six G Class and one F Class yellow dwarf stars like our Sun, sixteen K Class orange dwarfs, six D Class white dwarfs, eight L, M and T Class brown dwarfs - as of 2006, and the remaining 78 stars are M Class red dwarfs.

So, two thirds of our closest neighbors are red dwarfs. This may remain true for the whole of the Milky Way, but it may require Star Trek warp travel to confirm. :wink:

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