#243rd

[hacash]

trump campaign: *takes any tiny opportunity to invoke american nationalism, no matter how strained the leap might be*

bbc journalist: and he can’t spell for shit, fyi

[mindblowingscience]

A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us, astronomers have found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter. It doesn't match any known structure or formation mechanism. The Big Ring, as the structure has been named, could mean that we need to amend the standard model of cosmology. The discovery, led by astronomer Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire, was presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January, and is reported in a pre-print paper available at arXiv.

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[chimeride]

The Hierophant, the 243rd Known One.

[northgazaupdates]

5 June 2024

Journalist Wadea Abu Alsaoud, despite struggling with occupation-induced health problems requiring occasional hospitalization, continues documenting the ongoing genocide against Gaza from the northern Strip. In an extremely distressing video posted this afternoon, Wadea explains conditions on the ground and demonstrates once again that the occupation’s only goal in Gaza is to commit genocide against the population, particularly its youth. English translation provided by Instagram user mydxb2024.

A new massacre was committed against our people on the 243rd day of this genocidal war that continues on the people of Gaza. As you are now witnessing, these are the primary targets of the Israeli Occupation, a group of children. A small building collapsed on them from an explosive launched from a quadcopter, that wounded a number of children and martyred a number of others, here in the Northern Gaza Strip. This here (boy) is the primary target of the Israeli Occupation on this 243rd day! I mean, this here (girl) is their primary target, as you are witnessing. This here (second boy) is the primary target of the Israeli Occupation forces. This (boy with a bandage on his face) is the primary target of the Israeli Occupation forces. And this (fifth child) is the primary target of the Israeli Occupation forces.

WARNING: Linked footage is EXTREMELY graphic and upsetting! Viewer discretion is advised!

[workersolidarity]

[ 📹 More than 70 civilians were killed over the previous 24-hours resulting from the Israeli occupation's surprise offensive into central Gaza after weeks of fighting in Gaza's north and south forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into the central Gaza Strip. ]

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ISRAELI OCCUPATION'S GENOCIDE IN GAZA DAY 243: NY TIMES ARTICLE SAYS ZIONIST REGIME LAUNCHED A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN IN US, OCCUPATION ARMY CREATES NEW UNIT TO KEEP PALESTINIANS IN OUTDOOR PRISON OF GAZA, OCCUPATION ARMY RAISES CONSCRIPTION CAPS, NEW ISRAELI GROUND OFFENSIVE TARGETS CENTRAL GAZA, MASS SLAUGHTER OF CIVILIANS CONTINUES

On 243rd day of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) committed a total of 4 new massacres of Palestinian families, resulting in the deaths of no less than 36 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, while another 115 others were wounded over the previous 24-hours.

It should be noted that as a result of the constant Israeli bombardment of Gaza's healthcare system, infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, local paramedic and civil defense crews are unable to recover countless hundreds, even thousands, of victims who remain trapped under the rubble, or who's bodies remain strewn across the streets of Gaza.

This leaves the official death toll vastly undercounted as Gaza's healthcare officials are unable to accurately tally those killed and maimed in this genocide, which must be kept in mind when considering the scale of the mass murder.

"Israel organized and paid for an influence campaign last year targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messaging, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the war with Gaza, according to officials involved in the effort and documents related to the operation."

That's according to an investigation conducted by the New York Times revealing a covert disinformation campaign launched by the Israeli occupation to target US lawmakers and the American public.

According to the Times, the disinformation campaign was "commissioned by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel."

The Times article stated that the Israeli occupation "allocated about $2 million to the operation and hired Stoic, a political marketing firm in Tel Aviv, to carry it out."

The campaign started back in October and "remains active on the [social media] platform X."

At its zenith, the campaign used "hundreds of fake accounts that posed as real Americans on X, Facebook and Instagram to post pro-Israel comments," with the majority of the accounts focused on "US lawmakers, particularly ones who are black and Democrats, such as Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader from New York, and Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia, with posts urging them to continue funding Israel's military."

"ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, was used to generate many of the posts. The campaign also created three fake English-language news sites featuring pro-Israel articles," the Times stated, later adding that "the secretive campaign signals the lengths Israel was willing to go to sway American opinion on the war in Gaza."

In other news for Wednesday, the Israeli occupation army has created a new unit, the "Lotar Cover," with the purpose of protecting Zionist settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli army spokesperson said the "Awtf" unit will operate within the 143rd Division, with the express purpose of providing a rapid response to any potential threats to settlements coming out of the Gaza Strip.

The occupation army says the unit will consist of “reserve fighters who graduate from elite units who live in or around the [Gaza] cover settlements and who will be on alert to operate in the region. The soldiers will undergo a special training and qualification process, at the end of which, they will be qualified to deal with the challenges of the region.”

In the meantime, the Israeli occupation has made the decision to raise the number of reservists the occupation army is authorized to call-up for service.

According to reporting in the Hebrew media, the Israeli occupation army will now be authorized to call-up for service 350'000 citizens, up from 300'000, which the Israeli army claims has "nothing to do with tensions in northern Israel."

The occupation authorities claimed the reason for the shift "relates to the operation in southern Gaza's Rafah taking more personnel than initially planned."

Previously, as a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing genocide campaign in Gaza, the Israeli occupation army called-up a total of 287'000 reservists.

However, many have already been released from duty for the time being. The draft marked the largest call-up of reservists in the occupation's nearly 80-year history.

Elsewhere in international news reports, the Slovenian Parliament has officially approved the government's decision to recognize the State of Palestine as an independent and sovereign state, on Wednesday.

Previously, on Thursday of last week, the Slovenian Prime Minister, Robert Golub, announced that his government would recognize the State of Palestine under its 1967 borders in accordance with international law and UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions.

The Slovenian Prime Minister said the decision “sends a message of peace,” stressing that “the time has come for the entire world to unite its efforts towards a two-state solution that will bring peace to the Middle East.”

By recognizing the State of Palestine, Slovenia joins the ranks of several other countries to recently announce their recognition of Palestine as a state, including Spain, Ireland and Norway, all of whom announced their recognition last month, bringing the total number of countries to recognize Palestine to 148, out of a total of 193 member-states belonging to the United Nations.

In other news, after several weeks of Israeli assaults on the north and south of Gaza, pushing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into the central areas, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) announced a new campaign of terror targeting the residents of the central Gaza Strip.

The latest ground offensive is to be conducted by the 98th Division, and is expected to focus on neighborhoods east of the Bureij Refugee Camp, as well as the east of Deir al-Balah, where one of the last large, functional hospitals standing in Gaza, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, remains in operation.

The 98th Division is the same military group that just recently withdrew from Jabalia in Gaza's north, committing horrific crimes against the Palestinian residents there, and also previously terrorized the citizens of Khan Yunis, south of Gaza.

The Zionist army says the operation was launched following intelligence that Resistance operatives and infrastructure, both above and below ground, were located in the area.

The operation has already seen occupation soldiers advancing into the east of the Bureij Camp, in addition to the east of Deir al-Balah on Tuesday, while simultaneously, a "large wave of airstrikes" were conducted targeting so-called "weapons depots, underground infrastructure, buildings used by terror groups, and other sites," according to the occupation military.

The Israeli occupation claims several Hamas operatives were killed in the operations, while an airstrike supposedly targeting a "Hamas compound," in the Bureij Camp, [a seeming impossibility when Hamas keeps its military infrastructure deep in underground tunnel networks] which was "based out of a United Nations School."

[This is typically how the occupation army admits to bombing civilian infrastructure such as schools, water facilities and displacement shelters.]

The Zionist military stated that several Hamas operatives were "gathered at UNRWA's Abu Alhilu School when the strike was carried out," further claiming that the strike was “carefully planned and carried out using precise munitions, while avoiding harm to uninvolved [civilians] as much as possible.”

Meanwhile, local Palestinian media reported that 72 Palestinian citizens were killed during Israeli operations in central Gaza over the previous 24-hours, while scores of others were wounded in the same period.

Witnesses said the Israeli occupation forces' ground operations targeted areas of the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi Camps, in addition to neighborhoods east of Deir al-Balah, while occupation bombing and artillery shelling targeted the Nuseirat Camp.

As ground operations targeted central Gaza, intense waves of bombing and shelling also targeted various other sectors of Gaza as well, including in the north and south of the enclave.

In one example, Zionist warplanes bombed a residential home belonging to the Hussein family in the vicinity of the Abu Rasas roundabout in the Bureij Camp, in the central Gaza Strip, killing one civilian and wounding a number of others.

Similarly, occupation fighter jets bombed a residential house belonging to the Kirdi family on Block-5 of the Bureij Camp. After the strike, the body of one civilian and several wounded were transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

Additionally, another occupation airstrike targeted a house belonging to the Al-Dawli family near the entrance to the Bureij Camp, resulting in the deaths of two Palestinians and wounding several others.

Another 5 civilians were wounded following an Israeli airstrike in the vicinity of a UNRWA clinic in the area and the Services Club nearby.

Zionist occupation forces also dropped several violent firebelts between the Bureij and the Al-Maghazi Camps, one of which targeted a residential building in the Al-Bataniyya neighborhood of the Al-Maghazi Camp, killing four Palestinian civilians.

In particular, the strikes killed Majd Darwish, his wife and his two children, and also wounded a number of others.

In another criminal atrocity, occupation aircraft bombed a civilian residence belonging to the Qatawi family in the Al-Maghazi Camp, in central Gaza, killing two civilians and wounding several others.

At the same time, another massacre occured when Zionist warplanes bombed a residential apartment in the Aslan Building, in the vicinity of the Qattoush roundabout in the Al-Maghazi Camp, resulting in the martyredom of 8 civilians and wounding a number of others.

Yet another occupation airstrike targeted and destroyed a four-story residential building belonging to the Al-Barr family near Salah al-Din, west of the Maghazi Camp.

The horrors went on when Israeli fighter jets bombed a residential house belonging to the Al-Louh family overnight, east of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 5 civilians and wounding several others, while yet another airstrike targeted the Al-Masdar family home in the vicinity of the Al-Masdar Mosque, wounding several people.

Two more civilians were killed, and a number of others wounded, after Zionist artillery detatchments shelled a house in the Abu Al-Ajen area, southeast of Deir al-Balah.

According to local reports, the Israeli occupation army also arrested a number of Palestinians, including women, after the occupation forces surrounded a house belonging to the Abu Luz family, east of the Abu Al-Ajen neighborhood, southeast of Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, with the kidnapped persons taken to an unknown location.

Local civil defense and paramedic personnel also reported recovering the bodies of dozens of martyrs and wounded from neighborhoods east of the central Gaza Strip following a night of intense and violent bombardment of the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi Camps, as well as the town of Al-Masdar and Deir al-Balah, with the many wounded transfered to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.

Further airstrikes targeted neighborhoods east of Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, while occupation vehicles opened fire east of the town of Al-Qarara, coinciding with intense artillery shelling of the area.

Additionally, the European Gaza Hospital reported the arrival of two dead bodies of Palestinians following Israeli drone strikes east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, north of Gaza, occupation warplanes bombed a residential home belonging to the Dalloul family in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, resulting in the wounding of at least 7 citizens, while occupation bombing also targeted the Tal al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin neighborhoods, coinciding with intense machine gun fire, in addition to occupation drones which opened fire near 20th Street, east of the Nuseirat Camp, in central Gaza.

In Rafah, south of Gaza, Zionist artillery forces fired several shells into residential areas east of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza.

Zionist air forces also bombed a gathering of civilians in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, resulting in the murder of four Palestinians.

As a result of the Israeli occupation's ongoing special genocide operation in the Gaza Strip, the infinitely rising death toll now exceeds 36'586 Palestinians killed, including upwards of 10'000 women and over 15'000 children, while another 83'074 others have been wounded since the start of the current round of Zionist aggression, beginning with the events of October 7th, 2023.

June 4th, 2024.

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[trashmammal-7]

57 years ago Star Trek: The Original Series aired its second season premier, Amok Time, and gave birth to a beautiful trope called fuck or die.

Happy -243rd birthday to Spock's first pon farr.

[idkfitememate]

Alright listen Mora!Reader is nearly done but I just had a truly awful idea and I’m listening to Extreme/Brazilian Funk rn so I’m on a mind high okay so here’s the tea (never saying that again):

So we know that Obey Me doesn’t follow the Bible in anyway whatsoever really, so why not make the entire game angsty because I’m tried? Bet, making shit angsty is my specialty.

So anyway, that’s where new character/reader comes in: Adam/Eve! And when I put their names together like that, I mean they are the same person. They were made in a way that allows them to flip flop between both genders and sex’s so like they have the best of both worlds. Good a cooking and cleaning and sewing and child stuff as well as hunting and war and providing and so on and so forth.

Now here’s the kicker, they’re the human Lilith meets.

And *poof* love blossoms. She’s like “Awe cute little human~” and they’re like “Wow a being beyond my mortal comprehension! Neat!” Love.

So all the “God doesn’t want me here” shit goes down and instead of being like “aw don’t listen to him baby stay down here with us humans” they’re like “Then??? Stop visiting me??? If The Father doesn’t want that????”

So anyway war starts and she dies-

And their like “OH NO MY LOVE” so they chase after her falling body and try to catch her but end up slipping off a cliff and being forced to watch as Lucifer does the deal thingy with Dia and then they also get reincarnated with her.

But not for good reason oh no, they’re immortal now and forced to watch as she lives her life and watch her descendants live their lives as well.

Also they’ve been instilled with the 7 deadly sins, but the 7 heavenly virtues are still stuck in em as another punishment so they can go “Imma gonna rob this bank😏” “you could use this to feed the poor😇” “NOOOOO-“

They start off being okay with the brothers and still praying but soon (and by soon I mean over the course of thousands of years) it turns into them owing a shrine in their house for the soul purpose of of praying to God to shit on him.

“So today I learned that Lilith’s 243rd descendent is a world leader. That’s cool. Bet you didn’t see that coming huh you fucking bitch? Bet you weren’t counting on that were you whore? Hope your ass sits on an angel with a shockingly sharp halo.”

Yeah they’re pissy which is fair.

And then, the cherry on top?

They get invited to R.A.D. as a human participant.

Now, last they checked this did seem like something Dia would do (they never had bad blood with him) but DAMNIT why them???

They are so fucking tired dude, when they get down there the demon brothers try to scare them and they probably say at some point “Oooooo Beel’s gonna eat you oooooo!!!1!1!11” And they just… rip their leg off and throw it at him before using an ancient magic to rapid fire heal their leg back to perfect health and walk away, leaving them in shock.

I’m sorry it’s late and like I said Mora!Reader is nearly done but this idea (that I know FULL WELL I didn’t articulate right) hasn’t left my mind as well as another that I might dump in a while lmao. Mmm just asshole Adam/Eve!Reader(??? Would anyone read that??-) who is tired of the brothers bullshit and ready to throw Belphie through a wall for coddling them hehe ໒꒰ྀི´ ˘ ` ꒱ྀིა

Also I’m open to questions if anyone has any (I doubt it lol) hehe got to many ideas ૮꒰ ˶꒦ິ꒳꒦ິ˶꒱ა♡

Anyway bye-

[selfoftheseus]

On the 243rd day of Christmas Testosterone gave to me - even more new ass hair!!!

[amrev-culture-is]

Amrev culture is celebrating Alex and Eliza's anniversary(happy 243rd babes)

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[plagu3dlov3r]

This was in my notes from December 3rd. I think i was right. This was my 243rd attempt to define love and since then it hasnt changed.

[pixie-skull]

243rd edit and another reimagining of a non-Disney character as a Disney character. With blonde hair I accidentally get Holli Wood (Cool World) love child of (Thumb)Lina. @airasora

[mysterycharacterbracket]

243rd place

243rd place goes to character 50, aka Death from Darksiders!

Propaganda: Eldest brother, jerk with a heart of gold, sarcasm 100, wields a scythe. canonically stinky according to one of his siblings

In round 1, poll #17, he took 48 votes out of 188, or 25.5%.

And in round L2, poll #2, he received 26 votes out of 53, or 49.1%.

In total, he received 74 votes out of 241, or 30.7%.

[letsgetsquiggly]

Dandy Boy

Written for @flashfictionfridayofficial 243rd prompt.

Word count: 538

Audience: General

Themes: musical performances, emotional responses, slice of life

Descending the stairs, I approach the disco pop hell hole that has imprisoned my attention this last week. Such posh places were usually beneath me. I am much too old for curated vibrancy that only attracts young, flighty patrons with fleeting attention. This particular pocket of technicolor hell held an anomaly, however. A vast soul caged in a vapid gig.

I breathe in a deep puff of cotton candy cloud and snort the exhale at the no vaping sign that nobody follows at the bottom of the stairwell. I place my hand on the gaudiest velvet-clad door and push into the offensively neon venue. As an old woman, I trail an aura of grey through the pastel energies of today's youth gathered in this snug club. I don't belong, and I don't care. All I care about is that, in this unexpected place, is where the music happens. Not this spliced and sliced chords and bars pieced together by software and black boxes that I had grown accustomed to in the slog of shows I must sit through daily, but actual, grassroots composition born from tube amps, strings, and profound sadness. Pushing against the collection of confused stares, I make my presence known at the 10-seat wood top tucked in the back of this flashing sign and velvet box. I order what I've ordered the last four days I've been here; a Manhattan is burning, which, while cleverly named, was all flare and no flavor. I found myself at my corner booth, where I just sipped and waited.

It was mere moments before the object of my obsessions stumbles onto the cramped corner stage. A shy swallow who chirps an enchanting melancholic melody. He was a dandy dime, all glitter and blues. He has big, slick black hair and dark skin, a beautiful contrast to his foil-textured white fitted suit top sporting a deep v and a thoughtful gaze that never leaves his lifted-heeled boots. His Epiphone 8 string, a shimmering baby blue, plugged into a burnt orange tube amplifier. He drips with a brilliant shyness and sorrow, dressed in an awkward guise of confident colors and attire. I hold my breath while waiting for his set reveal, ready to be infected with his unexpected sparkle.

And then, he sings. He strums. The warm reverb of the transistor tubes worms through the pastel plain and hits my grey. He fills the room and turns it bold. Turns it blue. His performance erases the neon, coats the velvet, and masks the humanity of the room. All is him, and he is all. A deep baritone voice, crass and uneven, solid and vibrant, blends with the strings' vibration. His music is home, love, heartbreak, and loss. His music holds life and tells of change. This utter stranger has given me things I never knew I needed and showed me there is life I am missing to live.

At the end of the set, I release myself from my viewing station and approach the stage, money in my hand to show proper appreciation for the once again visceral performance. Throwing the cash into the open guitar case, I address the only thing in the room with soul.

"Excellent work, Dandy Boy."

[misschimotosuwa-blog]

Leosuya Moments -- 243rd Night

Recap of what's happening -- Hell Kusasatsu made a body pillow cover of Suya, and the Ten Guardians refuse to look at, assuming it'll be a naked pic of the princess, and try to hide it from her. Suya hears "body pillow", and if course, is determined to hunt it down.

In these pics -- Twilight has the pillow and is running from the Princess. Leo sees and offers to take it and run to keep it from the Princess, but Twilight HESITATES 'CAUSE HE KNOWS LEO IS KOO KOO BANANAS FOR SUYA HAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣

BUT THEN. OMG. Leo promises not to look at it, and says he'd never disrespect the Princess OMG OMGGGGGG

This is why Leo is #1 😩🔥👌💘

[treetownconfessions]

idk how to explain it very well but disco bear gives me heavy vibes to punkitt's version of rainbow dash from their mlp stuff. i know hes prob more mature than that but he just seems like the type of dude who would genuinely think watching borat for the 243rd time is in any sort of way romantical

YOURE SO RIGHT.

[jcmarchi]

Tilted Orbits: How Orbital Inclinations of Brown Dwarfs Reveal Clues About Their Formation - Technology Org

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/tilted-orbits-how-orbital-inclinations-of-brown-dwarfs-reveal-clues-about-their-formation-technology-org/

Tilted Orbits: How Orbital Inclinations of Brown Dwarfs Reveal Clues About Their Formation - Technology Org

Within the family of celestial orbs in the universe, brown dwarfs are somewhat like misfits. They are less massive and cooler than stars but are 10 to 80 times more massive than Jupiter. Brown dwarfs are sometimes called “failed stars,” because they lack the mass to ignite nuclear fusion and shine with starlight.

An artist’s concept of a “Hot Jupiter” extrasolar planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

One mystery that surrounds these oddballs is how they formed: Some theories propose that they form like stars do, out of collapsing clouds of material, while others suggest they form like planets, taking shape within rotating dusty disks that circle young stars. It is also possible, scientists propose, that brown dwarfs may form both like stars and planets.

Steven Giacalone, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Astronomy at Caltech, and his colleagues are addressing the mystery by studying the orbital tilts of brown dwarfs that circle very closely around companion stars.

Brown dwarfs, as well as some other exoplanets, can have orbits that are tilted to varying degrees relative to the rotational direction of their host stars.

If a brown dwarf has an orbital tilt, then it is out of whack with its partner star: the brown dwarf will loop above and below a plane that aligns with the star’s equator. This is unlike the planets in our own solar system that orbit in a plane that aligns with the Sun’s rotational direction.

This illustration shows a brown dwarf with no orbital tilt (above), versus one with a high orbital tilt (below). Astronomers think that brown dwarfs with no, or low, tilts likely formed like planets, while those with high tilts formed like stars. Image credit: Caltech/S. Giacalone

Using the Keck Planet Finder (KPF), a new planet-hunting instrument at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaiʻi, Giacalone and his colleagues wanted to assess whether a brown dwarf named GPX-1b has an orbital tilt. They say that a tilt would indicate that the object probably formed like a star and not like a planet.

“For a brown dwarf to have made its way into a tilted close-in orbit, it would have had to have been knocked around by a larger planetary body or captured by the star as the brown dwarf passed by,” explains Giacalone, who works in the group of Andrew Howard, a professor of astronomy at Caltech and the principal investigator of KPF. “That would mean it started out like a star.”

On the other hand, if the brown dwarf has an orbit aligned with the equatorial plane of its central star, then “it most likely migrated inward similar to planets via interactions with the disk in which it formed,” Giacalone says.

The results revealed GPX-1b is not tilted in its orbit, but that it circles in a plane that aligns with the host star’s equator.

“This is only one data point, and preliminary, but it suggests that the brown dwarf migrated close to its companion star in a similar manner to planets,” says Giacalone, who presented the results at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in New Orleans on January 10, 2024. “Theory has predicted that brown dwarfs should be able to form like planets, but observational evidence is only just beginning to be gathered to support that idea.”

The result contrasts with what is known about brown dwarfs with wide separations from their companion stars. “The wide-separation brown dwarfs are known to have high orbital tilts and do not form in a disk, but rather, like stars,” Giacalone says. “The short-separation ones like GPX-1b, on the other hand, probably do form in the disk if they have low orbital tilts, meaning they form like planets. In other words, we think brown dwarfs can form either like stars or planets.”

KPF, a high-precision spectrograph, was able to determine the orbital inclination of the object by watching it pass in front of, or transit, its star. The brown dwarf was discovered by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission and the Galactic Plane eXoplanet Survey (GPX) in 2021. It is one of a small number of brown dwarfs known to pass in front of, or transit, its host star.

The researchers hope to use KPF to study the orbital inclinations of more brown dwarfs in the future. “We have demonstrated the power of KPF for studying these systems,” Giacalone says. “Because close-in brown dwarfs are so rare, they are mostly found around relatively faint and distant stars. That means we need large telescopes like Keck and advanced instruments like KPF to study them accurately.”

Written by Whitney Clavin

Source: Caltech

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