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NASA Brown Dwarf Discoveries
NASA volunteers have doubled the known population of brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made since the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project began.
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A new paper from NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announces that volunteers have essentially doubled the number of known brown dwarfs, with over 3,000 new discoveries made over the past 10 years since the project began. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas the size of Jupiter, less massive than sta
2026-05-05 13:48 UTC