Seventy five light-years away there’s a star called CFBDSIR 1458 10b. I would call it Star Latte. See, Star Latte here is a brown dwarf star so cold that you can actually lick it.
In fact, it’s the coldest star ever detected. Only 97C. That’s about the temperature of a cup of fresh coffee. It wouldn’t taste as good as coffee and you’ll probably die trying to dunk your muffin in it, but it is that cold. For comparison, our own home star is about 5800K on its surface (9980F or 5526C).
Star Latte was discovered by Michael Liu and his team using the W.M. Keck Observatory and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, at the Mauna Kea mountain, in Hawaii. While having ice-cold cocktails, I can only hope. [National Geographic]
Liam Johnson
Friday, March 25, 2011 at 10:39 AMHmm, I don’t think I’ll be licking a 97C *anything*, any time soon :P
Solomon Terra
Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 2:32 PMYou know, you’re right – the other articles I read on this said it was around 87 deg. Farenheit – far cooler than 97 celsius (which is almost 210 farenheit). I don’t particularly like licking near-boiling stuff, either. Anything hot enough to fry an egg on is too hot to lick, indeed. ;-) Good catch! I don’t think anyone else even noticed (I know I didn’t until I read your comment).
Goddy
Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 3:58 AMA Star below 1000′c? Are you kidding me right now?