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Erroneous source

The Guardian article "Two-faced star with helium and hydrogen sides baffles astronomers" is evidently wrong. It describes the features of ZTF J203349.8+322901.1 - which makes sense as at the publication's time that star was a recent discovery, but names it as ZTF J1901+1458, which is an entirely unrelated white dwarf, discovered four years earlier. The article is used as second reference for the Janus feature of ZTF J203349.8+322901.1, but is misleading in identifying it with a different star. I therefore remove this reference. WikiPidi (talk) 18:33, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unnecessary(?) note

Sirius B's note mentions it being the nearest white dwarf as of 2005. However, it will remain the nearest white dwarf for at least the next thousand years (assuming no undiscovered hypervelocity white dwarf comes along within 2.5 parsecs to the sun). As the additional information is redundant, I will remove this small string of text. Revert the change if a hypervelocity white dwarf passes by 2.5 parsecs to the Sun. Pancakes321 (talk) 13:20, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]