An amateur discovered dozens of brown dwarfs in our galaxy

A unique discovery was made by one amateur astronomer looking at the sky through the telescope he has at home. The man identified a special class of cosmic bodies called “brown dwarfs”.

Brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars and are classified as “failed stars” because all the evidence available to scientists shows that they started out as stars but at some point this process stopped and they are essentially cosmic debris. which continue to maintain a minimum level of operation.

They are celestial bodies larger than Jupiter, but with less mass than required to turn into stars. Although their population in our galaxy is believed to be very large, only a few hundred such bodies have been detected to date because their radiation is very faint and their size is relatively small.

They have relatively high temperatures when they are born (tens of thousands to millions of degrees Celsius). As they gradually cool, their temperature drops to around a thousand degrees Celsius. Amateur astronomer Frank Kewey, who participates in the Backyard Worlds research project, managed to identify 34 binary systems consisting of brown dwarfs that even have temperatures lower than those of the average brown dwarf.

The Backyard Worlds program involves approximately 150,000 amateur astronomers who study data generated by various Scientific studies and investigations looking for evidence that may lead to some discoveries, evidence that has for some reason been left on the sidelines of studies or overlooked by researchers. Kiwi studied data from the Astro Data archive of the US National Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab) and identified these binary systems located in regions relatively close to our solar system. Professional astronomers studied Cui’s findings and, publishing them in the online scientific prepublication archive arXiv, confirm the discovery, which offers new clues about these cosmic bodies.

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