Renowned for colorful flowers that often have detailed markings, irises are some of the most popular cottage garden plants.

They come in a variety of colors but are usually blue, yellow, or white. As their name suggests, Dutch irises originate from Holland, but they are a hybrid derived from species native to Spain and ...

“It used to be that this brown dwarf didn’t make any sense. We worried that we were doing something horribly wrong, or that our models were horribly wrong. But, no, everything’s fin ...

"Gliese 229B was considered the poster-child brown dwarf, and now we know we were wrong all along about the nature of the object. It's not one but two." A well-studied cosmic object has stunned ...

The brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, or the Dog Star, greatly outshines its white dwarf companion, Sirius B. At 8.6 light-years away, Sirius B is the nearest known white dwarf star to ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet - sort of a celestial tweener.

This artwork highlights a pair of recently uncovered brown dwarf twins, named Gliese 229Ba and Gliese 229Bb. Gliese 229B, discovered in 1995, was the first-ever confirmed brown dwarf, but until ...

Bulbs can be planted in a carpet of a single colour, in two-toned swathes such as white snowdrops mingled with blue wood ...

Much to the surprise of the crew, Lister finds himself actually missing Rimmer now that he's left Red Dwarf! Kryten comes up with an idea to help by making a virtual tour of the life of Arnold Rimmer ...

The Blue Crew is a high-energy team that supports the Blues event presentations at every Blues home game, as well as various community events. Starting from the moment the doors open until the ...

Three Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers a Surprise By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf ...

Hundreds of papers have been written about the first known brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, since its discovery by Caltech researchers at the Institute's Palomar Observatory in 1995. But a pressing ...