stackyFACTSBefore anyone knew it existed on Earth, French astronomer Jules Janssen detected an unknown yellow spectral line during a total solar eclipse in 1868. The element was fittingly named after the Greek god of the sun, Helios, and wasn't chemically isolated in a laboratory down on Earth until decades later.
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