Citizen scientist leads discovery of 34 ultracool dwarf binaries using archive at NSF's NOIRLab - EurekAlert

How often do stars live alone? For brown dwarfs — objects that straddle the boundary between the most massive planets and the smallest stars — astronomers need to uncover more examples of their companions to find out. Ace citizen scientist Frank Kiwy has done…

image: Illustration of an ultracool dwarf with a companion white dwarf. Ace citizen scientist Frank Kiwy used the Astro Data Lab science platform at NSFs NOIRLab to discover 34 new ultracool dwarf bi… [+7593 chars]

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