Astronomers have discovered what they're calling a "two-faced" star, one side is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and the other side is made up of helium. It's a first among white dwarf stars. It ...

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - Some people are two-faced, figuratively speaking of course. The ancient Roman god Janus was two-faced, literally - with one looking forward and another backward, ...

The ingredients in stars are usually pretty evenly mixed throughout, but now astronomers have discovered a bizarre star with two distinct faces, each made of a different element, which defies ...

An artist’s concept of the two-faced white dwarf, nicknamed Janus. Credit: K. Miller, Caltech/IPAC The astronomers aren’t sure why the white dwarf, which they’ve nicknamed Janus after the two-faced ...