
WISE 1049-5319
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Oct 2, 2026
Not Planets, Not Stars: NASA Volunteers Doubled the Number of Known Brown Dwarfs
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5:48Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
Barnard star is next.
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5:51Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
But then the next two after that are WISE 1049 and WISE 0855, which are two brown dwarfs.
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5:56Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
So in the closest systems to the sun, brown dwarfs make up half of the closest four.
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6:03Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
And they weren't discovered until the mid 2010s, early 2010s, which is relatively recent.
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10:58Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
If you're familiar with Zooniverse, you can log on and find us there.
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11:03Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
What you do is you look at basically a random area of the sky in infrared light.
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11:09Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
So these are images that come from the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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11:15Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
And those images, so we show you what we call a flipbook that shows images of that spot of the sky over a course of about 10 years.