Relative Size of a Brown Dwarf

Relative Size of a Brown Dwarf

An artist’s depiction of the relative sizes of the Sun, a low-mass star, a brown dwarf, Jupiter, and the Earth. Sizes are to scale, but distances are not.

Credits

Jupiter: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA, GSFC); Sun and Low-Mass Star: NASA, SDO; Brown Dwarf: NASA, ESA, and JPL-Caltech; Earth: NASA; Infographic: NASA and E. Wheatley (STScI).

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