Re: Jupiters?
"Brown dwarfs have traditionally been studied like stars, but it's more of a continuum," Marley said. "If you line a mug shot of Jupiter up with these guys, it is just a very low-mass brown dwarf."
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I'd thought so too, but currently most astronomers believe that Jovians form via an entirely different mechanism than do stars, including Brown Dwarfs.
