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NASA's Backyard Worlds: Binaries Project Enlists Volunteers to Find Brown Dwarf-Star Pairs

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NASA's Backyard Worlds: Binaries project invites volunteers to help discover brown dwarf-star pairs using images from the WISE space telescope. Brown dwarfs are gas balls too massive to be planets but too low-mass to be stars. When paired with a star, they help astronomers determine ages of astronomical objects, which is essential for understanding formation processes. The project enables public participation in identifying these rare cosmic companions.

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Now, you can join NASA's new Backyard Worlds: Binaries project and help astronomers discover these rare and interesting pairs.

As a volunteer, you'll inspect images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.

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Now, you can join NASA’s new Backyard Worlds: Binaries project and help astronomers discover these rare and interesting pairs. As a volunteer, you'll inspect

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