... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... An oasis in the brown dwarf desert . Astronomers report a wellspring of new brown dwarf stellar companions, throwing cold water on the entire idea of the brown dwarf desert, the previously mystifying lack of these sub-stellar objects around stars. ... In fact, until recently, so few brown dwarfs have been found orbiting close to other stars that astronomers refer to the phenomenon as the brown dwarf desert. ...