Thursday, April 25, 2024

Citizen scientists find a failed star in the Sun’s neighborhood

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Citizen scientists may not have the time and equipment of their pro counterparts, but their dedication can sometimes lead to discoveries that would otherwise be impractical. Case in point: a NASA-backed citizen science initiative, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, has found a brown dwarf (effectively, a failed star) relatively close to the Sun at 110 light years away. Rosa Castro and three other amateur observers combed through a flipbook of images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Exp…..
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