On 11/16/2011 10:37 AM, Kurt Feltenberger wrote:
I have a question about brown dwarfs for the astronomers on the list...
I read an article about brown dwarfs recently discovered that are
roughly the same temperature as the human body. This started me thinking
about their relation to gas giants (I know there's a train of thought
that says they're somehow related) and whether you could effectively
hide a fleet within one, or, going one step further, actually put a
space station within one.
A brown dwarf is a failed star -- it's massive enough to burn deuterium
in its core, but not for hydrogen fusion. A low temperature brown dwarf
is going to be quite similar to a massive gas giant, but it will be
extremely dense -- similar in size to Jupiter with ten times the mass,
so a 'surface' gravity of 20-30 Gs. Assuming you can deal with the much
higher gravity, hiding in one would be similar to hiding in a gas giant.
Third, could a station, or ship, use the composition of the brown dwarf
or some sort of reverse radiator for power and thus not use their own
power plant?
Not really.
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