A team led by Justin Crepp,the Frank M. Freimann Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Notre Dame, has discovered a scarce brown dwarf, or a faint object with properties in between that of a star and planet. In addition to taking its picture for the first time,Crepp's team also determined the brown dwarf's mass, age and composition—fundamental information that can be used to "benchmark" the study of these elusive objects.
Source: phys.org