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Astronomy

Citizen scientists combing old NASA infrared data just found 3,000 brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight — doubling the known population of failed stars around the Sun

Over the past decade, thousands of volunteers with no professional astronomy training have been flipping through old NASA infrared images on their laptops, hunting for faint objects that drift slowly against the backdrop of distant stars. That effort just paid off in a big way. A new peer-reviewed catalog, accepted to The Astronomical Journal in […]