• @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 year ago

    What happened to saying it “appears” to have a hydrogen side and a helium side?

    I’m just some guy, but a ball of plasma rotating every 15 minutes seems highly unlikely to be separated vertically into two materials of different weights.

    It hardly seems like they’re applying Occam’s Razor here.

    • @CeruleanRuin
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      21 year ago

      From the article: “One explanation is that Janus could be undergoing a rare transition that has been predicted to occur during white dwarf evolution.”

      So it does fall within the known models.