Two unusual, icy objects in our galaxy that look not like something astronomers have ever seen could possibly be a completely new sort of star.
In 2021, Takashi Shimonishi at Niigata College in Japan and his colleagues noticed what seemed to be two icy balls of fuel in roughly the identical patch of sky, however separated by a big sufficient distance to be unrelated to one another.
The objects’ properties have been baffling. They appeared like…