... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Survey Telescopes . ... This artistтАЩs impression shows the disc of gas and cosmic dust around a brown dwarf. ... Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time found that the outer region of a dusty disc encircling a brown dwarf тАФ a star-like object, but one too small to shine brightly like a star тАФ also contains millimetre-sized solid grains like those found in denser discs around newborn stars. ...