Surprised by the two-faced star
A white dwarf star found a thousand light-years away from Earth has surprised scientists. This is a two faced star. This type of star was never seen before today. This star surprisingly completes its rotation in its orbit every 15 minutes.
Scientists from the postdoctoral scholar of the California Institute of Technology have made this discovery. Regarding this discovery, astrophysicist Ilaria Caiazzo says that it is a completely accidental discovery. What he saw in this search was shocking. After studying it, it was found that there were two different elements on both sides of the spherical surface of this star, which were cut from the middle. On one side of which there was hydrogen and on the other side helium was seen. Theoretically it is not possible to divide hydrogen and helium into two equal parts, but on the contrary, in reality they were seeing this and this was the biggest reason for the scientists to be surprised. This two-faced star was nicknamed after seeing this
Named after the Roman god “Janus”Its scientific name is ZTF J.
is 203349.8+322901.1. Scientists alternated studies from the spectrometer to the San Diego and California Zwicky Transient Facility laboratories. Scientist Caiazzo says that he was looking for fast-spinning and highly magnetized white dwarfs. But when he saw this two-faced dwarf star, he understood that it is something different and the star itself has a new form.
There can be more such stars in the universe
Scientists hope that there may be more two-faced dwarf stars like Janus in the universe. For this, they have to increase the scope of study. This is a really important find. For this, the scientists of the world will have to do joint research. It is definitely possible that some more new secrets will be revealed.
Source and photo: arth sky.
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