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WISE 1049-5319

WISE 1049-5319

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Oct 2, 2026

Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
5:48
Barnard star is next.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
5:51
But then the next two after that are WISE 1049 and WISE 0855, which are two brown dwarfs.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
5:56
So in the closest systems to the sun, brown dwarfs make up half of the closest four.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
6:03
And they weren't discovered until the mid 2010s, early 2010s, which is relatively recent.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
10:58
If you're familiar with Zooniverse, you can log on and find us there.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
11:03
What you do is you look at basically a random area of the sky in infrared light.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
11:09
So these are images that come from the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Adam C. SchneiderGUEST
11:15
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.

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