31.   Marcy emphasized that the new findings had not answered all the questions about brown dwarfs.

32.   No one knows how many, if any, roaming brown dwarfs there are in nearby space, so attempting to assess the danger from them is futile.

33.   One candidate has been brown dwarfs, small stellar objects that lacked the mass to become real glowing stars.

34.   Only a few brown dwarf candidates have been identified, and only one confirmed.

35.   Perhaps, Marcy and other astronomers said, the term brown dwarf may be employed to include several different, and still mysterious, substellar objects.

36.   Several objects that may be brown dwarfs have been found in recent months, but this is the first for which evidence is convincing.

37.   Stars, and presumed brown dwarfs, form from collapsing clouds of gas.

38.   The astronomers followed a series of logical steps to convince themselves that they had found a real brown dwarf and not just a very dim red star.

39.   The assortment of new planets has expanded once again, including a stillborn star called a brown dwarf orbiting its own sun.

40.   The announcement follows other recent but unproven assertions of brown dwarfs in space.