The Accident
Accident square

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Observation • August 31st, 2021 • ssc2021-08a

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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

Name
WISEA J153429.75-104303.3
Type
Star > Type > Brown Dwarf
Distance
52 Light Years

Color Mapping

Band Wavelength Telescope
Infrared WISE
WISE