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Brown dwarfs are stars that never ignited

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Imagine gathering immense amounts of cosmic gas and just entirely giving up right before the finish line. These tragic celestial objects are too massive to be classified as normal gas giants but completely lack the internal mass to trigger self-sustaining nuclear fusion. They just sit in the endless dark, weakly glowing, serving as the universe's most dramatic underachievers.

Brown dwarfs are stars that never ignited
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