Webb Telescope Unveils First Young Brown Dwarfs Beyond the Milky Way

This groundbreaking discovery in the Small Magellanic Cloud offers new insights into star formation in low-metallicity environments.

The JWST has identified 64 brown dwarf candidates in the NGC 602 star cluster, marking the first detection of such objects outside our galaxy.
The study reveals that these brown dwarfs share formation characteristics with low-mass stars, suggesting they originate from the same processes.
The NGC 602 cluster, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, provides a unique opportunity to study star formation in conditions resembling the early universe.
Researchers leveraged both the JWST and Hubble to achieve this discovery, highlighting the complementary strengths of these telescopes.
The findings could help clarify whether brown dwarfs form like stars from molecular clouds or like planets from circumstellar disks.