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As you begin your study of the heavens, you may feel that the odds of your making any impact on the field of (26) are impossibly low. But in fact important (27) can come from students’ work. You may have heard from the media that the examples of one of the most illusive objects in the (28) the Brown Dwarf, were found by a 27-year-old student Clare Briadger. Scientists all over the world had been searching for more than 50 years and yet the (29) was made by someone still in (30) school, when Ms. Briadger (31) a paper at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society, her talk was for me the (32) of the meeting. There was (33) agreement that what she had found was indeed the illusive Brown Dwarf. For those of you who don’t yet know, Brown Dwarves are these gaseous bodies that are too (34) to be planets, but not massive enough to ignite into full-grown stars. While others spent their time studying what shows up big and bright in the heavens, Briadger searched for the small and faint. She (35) about 2 years at a computer scanning and classifying pinpoints of light within clusters of stars. She sometimes worked 100 hours in a single week. Then finally she was able to isolate a number of points that seemed to be actual Brown Dwarf. Her discovery may help to explain how stars form and thus answer some of our questions about the ultimate fate of the universe.