It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. The lower limit is around 7 to 8 percent of the sun’s mass; any less than that, and there isn’t ...

An image displaying the relative size of a typical brown dwarf star. In the instance of the star in this study, the brown dwarf is smaller than Jupiter (between 0.65 and 0.95 its radius) but is more ...