A group of volunteers and professional scientists have created a new 3D map of where the closest brown dwarfs to our sun are located. This is actually the most complete map ever created of brown dwarfs in our solar system’s “neighborhood”. Brown dwarfs are objects that are too big to be classified as planets and too small to be categorized as stars. Since they are so faint and somewhat small in size, they are pretty hard to find so the experts needed as much help as they could get in order to find them. The volunteer “citizen scientists” and professional scientists were part of a NASA-funded project named “Backyard Worlds: Planet 9” where they found and mapped out hundreds of brown dwarfs that are all within 65 light-years away from our sun (approximately 400 trillion miles) and their distances were confirmed by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.