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Citizen Scientists Help NASA Double the Known Brown Dwarf Count
Key Takeaways
- NASA volunteers discovered more than 3,000 brown dwarfs over 10 years.
- The new paper says the effort effectively doubled the known brown dwarf population.
- The expanded catalog has already revealed extreme T subdwarfs and other rare objects.
- Roughly 200,000 volunteers contributed through the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project.
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DT Editorial Team··via science.nasa.gov
