title: ASTRONOMY: Brown Dwarf's Flare Opens X-ray Eyes.
abstract: When the Chandra X-ray Observatory pointed its snout at a failed star 16 light-years away, astronomers expected it to see little sign of activity. Instead, the orbiting telescope got smacked in the eye by an x-ray flare--and astrophysicists are still trying to explain why.
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