Suppose that an astronomy news item announces the discovery of a brown dwarf. What is it that has been discovered?
A) prestellar object undergoing gravitational collapse
B) Plutolike object in the Kuiper belt, beyond the edge of the planetary system
C) object too large to be a planet but too small to be a star
D) protostar still embedded in the cloud of gas and dust from which it formed
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