[Bob434]

what is the penalty for impersonating planets these days?

[nickcarraway]

They came for Pluto, and I said nothing.

[Nateman]

Strange things happen in the Cosmos. After a certain point some stars actually SHRINK in diameter when mass is added . Other stars blow up to little bits because the hydrogen added reaches a certain point where fusion can take place. That turns the entire surface into a thermonuclear bomb.

[RedMonqey]

But exoplanets claim to be planets and we must believe them.

Otherwise it would be transplantphobic.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The 'wobble method' is still the best way to look for exoplanets because it tells you the mass, not the size, of a planet. The 'transit method' only tells you its size which can be deceptive. Jupiter would be a star if it had 80 times its mass, but its size would not be much larger because it would also be denser.

And Pluto is not a planet. Never was.

[yesthatjallen]

Dark Matter. Everything in astrophysics can be explained by referring to dark matter, the universal fudge-factor.