Observation • August 31st, 2021 • ssc2021-08a
ssc2021-08a
Can you see the dark spot moving in the bottom left corner of the screen? It’s a brown dwarf nicknamed “The Accident,” which was discovered by citizen scientist Dan Caselden. It had slipped past typical searches because it doesn’t look like any other known brown dwarfs.
About the Object
Color Mapping
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
Infrared | WISE | |
WISE |