Reply to post: SI or reg units please otherwise it makes no sense.

Sneaky brown dwarf gives us a bright flash and astroboffins are confused

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SI or reg units please otherwise it makes no sense.

Yes, I read "4400...half as hot as the Sun" and simply thought "that's wrong". Then I went back...

Do American astronomers have all their instruments specially calibrated to read degrees F? Somehow I doubt it, and suspect somebody actually converted that from either C or K.

Perhaps for completeness we should have degrees Réaumur as well. And Galilean air thermometer units.

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