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failed star: see brown dwarf brown dwarf, in astronomy, celestial body that is larger than a planet but does not have sufficient mass to convert hydrogen into helium via nuclear fusion as stars do.
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failed star [¦fāld ′stär]

(astronomy)

brown dwarf

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