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minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 hours agoJupiter and Saturn are not brown dwarves. https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-why-is-jupiter-not-a-star-or-a-brown-dwarf/
minus-squareAnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·edit-23 hours ago dated July 1997 issue of the magazine Here’s Jupiter on Wikipedia’s list of Y-class brown dwarves. Jupiter and Saturn are in fact brown dwarves. Stellar classes are OBAFGKMLTY, from most to least massive.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoDid you even read that page you linked to? Right at the top, it says: They are a mix of brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects.
Jupiter and Saturn are not brown dwarves.
https://www.astronomy.com/science/ask-astro-why-is-jupiter-not-a-star-or-a-brown-dwarf/
Here’s Jupiter on Wikipedia’s list of Y-class brown dwarves.
Jupiter and Saturn are in fact brown dwarves.
Stellar classes are OBAFGKMLTY, from most to least massive.
Did you even read that page you linked to? Right at the top, it says: