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Two Bizarre Brown Dwarfs Found With Citizen Scientists’ Help

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Jul 10, 2020
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With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do.

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