From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sat Feb 15 2003 - 14:11:41 MST
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Jonathan Standley wrote:
>Is this discovery of a 'hidden' star right in our backyard, so to speak,
>really improbable, or are these low-luminosity stars a common occurrence?
Low luminosity stars are extremely common. It's entirely possible that,
among the millions of visibile stars with magnitude of 18+ (that is, very
very faint), some more brown dwarfs very close to us are "hiding".
Ciao,
Alfio
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