Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have spotted the most chemically rich disk ever observed around a brown dwarf, a cool, faint object sometimes dubbed a "failed star."

The finding comes from Cha Hα 1, a young brown dwarf encircled by a swirling disk of gas and dust where planets may one day take shape.

Though they never sustain hydrogen fusion like true stars, brown dwarfs and their disks offer vital clues about how planetary systems form. Webb's detection of this unprecedented chemical brew suggests that even these stellar underdogs could host the raw ingredients for planet birth.

This is because low-mass stars and brown dwarfs don't produce as much radiation or heat as stars like our sun. Their surrounding disks of gas and dust are therefore cooler, thinner an

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