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ISSUED BY THE SAO PAULO RESEARCH FOUNDATION (FAPESP) IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL A group of Brazilian astronomers observed a pair of celestial objects rarely seen in the Milky Way: a very low-mass white dwarf and a brown dwarf. A white dwarf is the endpoint of the evolution of an intermediate- or low-mass star, with a mass between 0.5 and 8 times that of our Sun. A brown dwarf is a substellar object with mass intermediate between those of a star and a planet. On analyzing the binary system more [...]