Citizen Scientists Comb Images To Find An ‘Overexcited Planet’

A brown dwarf can give off some light, allowing scientists — professional or volunteer — to search for the object as it moves across the sky.

In a crowdsourced search for celestial objects, four volunteers helped scientists identify a brown dwarf by studying images taken over the years by a NASA satellite.

(Image credit: Chuck Carter and Gregg Hallinan/Caltech/NASA)