... Survey Telescopes . ... 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 contains millimetre-sized solid grains like those found in denser discs around newborn stars. ... ALMAтАЩs increased resolution compared to previous telescopes also allowed the team to pinpoint carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf тАФ the first time that cold molecular gas has been detected in such a disc....