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Citizen Scientists Uncover Cold New World Near the Sun

A new Citizen Science Project that can reveal hidden worlds near the Sun (Backyardworlds.org) 

Water clouds tentatively detected in the coldest brown dwarf (2014 ApJ 793L 16F, Indications of Water Clouds in the Coldest Known Brown Dwarf)

How brown dwarfs reveal exoplanet secrets  (ApJs 225 10F, Population Properties of Brown Dwarf Analogs to Exoplanets)

How new low mass objects are helping to refine planetary evolution (2016 ApJ 832 50B, BANYAN. VIII. New Low-mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Candidate Circumstellar Disks)

Monster planet is dancing with the stars (2016 ApJ 818 106R, MagAO Imaging of Long-period Objects (MILO). I. A Benchmark M Dwarf Companion Exciting a Massive Planet around the Sun-like Star HD 7449)

Surprise!  When a brown dwarf is actually a planetary mass object (2017 ApJ 841L 1G SIMP J013656.5+093347 Is Likely a Planetary-mass Object in the Carina-Near Moving Group) 

When do Aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away? (2018 ApJ 854L 27G 2MASS J13243553+6358281 Is an Early T-type Planetary-mass Object in the AB Doradus Moving Group) 

Astronomy Magazine May 2015 cover story on brown dwarf science

Scientific American Piece on Brown Dwarfs and Gaia

Scientific American Piece on How to Foster Diversity in Science through Storytelling