Mapping our sun's backyard
Loading video... VIDEO: CosmoView Episode 20 for press release noirlab2015: Mapping Our Sun's Backyard Music: zero-project - The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr) view more Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld, International Gemini Observatory/Jacqueline Faherty (American Museum of Natural History)/OpenSpace/Lynette Cook Astronomers have curated the most complete list of nearby brown dwarfs to date thanks to discoveries made by thousands of volunteers participating in the Backyard Worlds citizen science project. The list and 3D map of 525 brown dwarfs -- including 38 reported for...
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