What would one even look like? Would it look like a gas giant that's glowing red, along with swirls of gas in its atmosphere like Jupiter? Or would it resemble a star and have a fiery surface like the sun? I prefer to imagine them as glowing gas giants but I don't know how realistic that is.

Gas giants in general are fascinating to me as well, I really hope we send a probe into one of the gas giants with a camera before I die. I'd absolutely love to see what it looks like inside a gas giants atmosphere before the probe gets crushed by the increasing pressure as it descends.

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Przybylski's Star. A star that, based on its spectrum appears to have several elements in it that really shouldn't be there.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star

“Przybylski's observations indicated unusually low amounts of iron and nickel in the star's spectrum, but higher amounts of unusual elements such as strontium, holmium, niobium, scandium, yttrium, caesium, neodymium, praseodymium, thorium, ytterbium, and uranium. In fact, at first Przybylski doubted that iron was present in the spectrum at all. Modern work shows that the iron group elements are somewhat below normal in abundance, but it is clear that the lanthanides and other exotic elements are highly over-abundant.”

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just read through the Wikipedia article on that star, that's insanely cool. I've never heard about this particular star before so that was a fun read.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here's a good bit more in depth read about it, it is excellent

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks!

Edit: Finished reading the article, and it was great! Gonna be scrolling through that website tonight as my night reading before bed. Thanks again for the link!