Brown Dwarf Table
WISE discovered brown dwarfs within 20 light-years include:
| Object | ly | Spectral type |
Constellation | Right ascension |
Declination |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WISE 0254+0223 | 20 | T8 | Cetus | 02h 54m 09.62s | 02° 23′ 58.85″ |
| WISE 0350-5658 | 12 | Y1 | Reticulum | 03h 50m 00.32s | -56° 58′ 30.2″ |
| WISE 0359-5401 | 19 | Y0 | Reticulum | 03h 59m 34.06s | -54° 01′ 54.6″ |
| WISE 0410+1502 | 14 | Y0 | Taurus | 04h 10m 22.79s | 15° 02′ 47.47″ |
| WISE 1049-5319 | 6.5 | L8 | Vela | 10h 49m 15.57s | -53° 19′ 06″ |
| WISE 1405+5534 | 16 | Y0 | Ursa Major | 14h 05m 18.27s | 55° 34′ 21.22″ |
| WISE 1506+7027 | 11 | T6 | Ursa Minor | 15h 06m 49.89s | 70° 27′ 36.23″ |
| WISE 1541-2250 | 20 | Y0.5 | Libra | 15h 41m 51.57s | -22° 50′ 25.03″ |
| WISE 1741+2553 | 19 | T9 | Hercules | 17h 41m 24.22s | 25° 53′ 18.96″ |
Before the discovery of WISE 1049-5319 in 2013, WISE 1506+7027 at a distance of 11.1+2.3
−1.3 light-years was suspected to be the nearest known brown dwarf to the Sun.
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