Researchers have discovered a bizarre "super-planet" for the first time using radio observations, according to a new study. Known as BDR J1750+3809 or Elegast, the "super-planet" is actually a brown dwarf, a celestial object that is too cold and small to be a star.The discovery was made by researchers at the University of Hawaii, working in conjunction with tools from NASA and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope in Europe. "This work opens a whole new method to finding the coldest objects floating in the sun's vicinity, which would otherwise be too faint to discover with the methods used for the past 25 years," the study's co-author, Michael Liu, said in a statement.
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