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A cosmic case of mistaken identity that can only be solved right now
Why this matters: new research or scientific developments with potential real-world impact.
Brown dwarfs are somewhere between the size of a planet and a star, so how could we have potentially mistaken two of them for distant galaxies? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein argues that solving this cosmic mix-up is particularly possible now, as galaxy research has never been stronger
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