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Nearly 100 cool new worlds found in our cosmic backyard – Daijiworld.com
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS): Members of the public have helped in discovering 95 objects known as brown dwarfs, many within a few dozen light-years of the Sun, says a study.
They are well outside the solar system, so do not experience heat from the Sun, but still inhabit a region astronomers consider our cosmic neighbourhood.
This collection represents some of the coldest known examples of these objects, which are between the sizes of planets and stars.
For this new group of brown dwarfs, 20 ci…
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