Citizen Scientists May Have Just Doubled the Number of Known Brown Dwarfs

Brown dwarfs are notoriously difficult to find. These failed stars arent big enough to sustain nuclear fusion, and therefore arent as bright as more traditional main sequence stars. In fact, theyre nearly invisible in optical light, and faintly visible in infrared. But thanks to dozens of citizen scientists combing through archival infrared datasets from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and a paper published in the Astronomical Journal detailing their work, we now have an addition...