Meet Janus, the rare, newly-discovered star with ‘two faces' 🌟🌟🌟
This recent article discusses the discovery of a unique celestial phenomenon known as the 'Janus star', which exhibits two distinct 'faces' – one side composed completely of helium and the other completely of hydrogen .
The star was named 'Janus' after the two-faced Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. It is a white dwarf, an ultra-dense stellar body that is the remains of a star once like our own sun.
Janus is located about 1,300 light years from Earth.