The difference between a star, a brown dwarf,
and a planet are drawn by humanity, nature
itself draws no clear line, but humanity
says this object weights 13 Jupiter masses
and orbits a star so it's a planet, while
this one weights 20 Jupiter masses
and makes its solitary way through Milky
Way and is deemed a brown dwarf, while
that one at 17 Jupiter masses we appoint
a free-floating planet while admitting
it could be heavier and a brown dwarf,
and this bright object here, captured
emerging from a cocoon of gas and dust
is at least 80 Jupiter masses, and thus a red
dwarf star that will be a firefly in the cosmic
night for at least thirty billion years,
sustaining nuclear fusion in its core,
while the brown dwarf and the planets,
free-floating and anchored to swing
around a star, will be growing cold
through the long aeons, failed stars
we call them, admonishing them
for not accreting enough material,
for not living up to the promise.
06.03.2025
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