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The 'Planemo' Twins - an object of 14 Jupiter masses with a 7 Jupiter mass companion.

At this rate, we're going to have to implement spectral class Y soon...

That's a tad too big, don't ya think? But that is COOL! (Disengaging sugar hype.) That's good material for my book right there. A super huge planet that spawns sentient life with godly strength to support itself under the intense gravity.

This reminds me of the double gas giant I created in Celestia:



Who knows what else is possible out there?

This article was interesting too.. a white dwarf/brown dwarf close binary pair

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20536

Bizarre. The brown dwarf must have spiralled inwards while the star was undergoing its red giant phase, but stopped before it reached the core. Presumably it stopped because the red giant shrank into a white dwarf.

Well, my understanding is that "shrank" might be the wrong description. The outer layers don't reduce in diameter, rather they're blown off to even larger diameters, forming a planetery nebula.