Probably the smallest star ever discovered
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luman (PSU), Catalina Alves de Oliveira (ESA)
The boundaries between stars and planets are fuzzy, but new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) make them even less clear. These objects look like brown dwarfs, commonly called failed stars, but they are closer in size to giant planets and may be the smallest stars ever discovered.
kevin luman Researchers at Penn State University discovered these three objects in a star-forming cluster called IC 348.
Source: www.newscientist.com
