Hubble Space Telescope discovers ‘failed stars’ are also bad at relationships

You have to have a feeling for brown dwarfs. Not only has their inability to ignite like normal stars earn them an unfortunate nickname: failed stars, but new findings from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that they can't even sustain a relationship.

Brown dwarfs are celestial bodies that form when giant clouds of gas and dust, called molecular clouds, develop overly dense patches that collapse. Unlike your regular old star, however, a brown dwarf can't collect enough material from the remnants of that cloud to pile up enough mass and trigger the fusion of hydrogen into helium in its ...