Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

The brown dwarf Luhman 16A is the closest to Earth. Recently, with the help of the Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered that there are layers of clouds on the star, similar to those enveloping Jupiter. Although the striped brown dwarf is not a discovery for scientists, the Caltech technique, known as polarimetry, is considered relatively new. More precisely, the latest technological developments of this method.

It works by analogy with sunglasses: by filtering the light of certain polarizations, scientists can understand through which medium this light passed.

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