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ASTRONOMYCHICAGO-- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an $80 million project to create a three-dimensional map of galaxies extending to hundreds of millions of light-years, is making discoveries in our cosmic neighborhood as well. At an American Astronomical Society meeting here on Monday, survey members announced that it has turned up two of the coolest, dimmest stars called brown dwarfs ever seen, lurking by themselves in the equatorial sky.

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