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OTS 44 is a brown dwarf located about 550 light-years (170 pc) away in constellation Chamaeleon. It is among the smallest known brown dwarfs with about 15 times the mass of Jupiter or about 1.5% that of the Sun. Its radius is about 23% of the Sun’s.This brown dwarf is located in the star-forming region Chamaeleon I.

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