article_snippet: Around the edge of the Sunthe Sun, the French astronomer Pierre Janssen was able to study the huge pillars of gas that emanate from it
article_snippet: in doing so the French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovered a new element.
article_snippet: a new element was named ‘helium’ after the Greek word for the Sun, Helios.
article_snippet: a new element would not be identified back on Earth until nearly three decades later.