The “Accident” That Revealed More About Our Cosmos | SciShow News

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Brown dwarfs are celestial oddballs, and recently one citizen scientist discovered one that is truly ancient, and weird.

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Sources:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac0437
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/an-accidental-discovery-hints-at-a-hidden-population-of-cosmic-objects
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/B/brown+dwarf

Images

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/what-is-a-brown-dwarf
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-webb-telescope-to-investigate-mysterious-brown-dwarfs
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/an-accidental-discovery
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milky_Way_Galaxy.jpg
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/798470
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-SNR0519690-ChandraXRayObservatory-20150122.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11567



https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg6037
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/927166
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/J/Jets