The star is orbited by a brown dwarf, and the newly detected object circles that brown dwarf rather than the star itself. The finding, published in the journal Nature, represents the first evidence of a satellite around a brown dwarf using the radial velocity technique. The brown dwarf has about 37 times the mass of Jupiter and orbits the star, while the newly detected body orbits the brown dwarf. He added that the object is massive enough to be considered a planet by its physical properties, but its orbit around a brown dwarf creates a different situation. The researchers looked for small changes in the brown dwarf’s velocity caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting body.