Last week, the winterovers gathered at @uw_icecube Lab for a team picture to congratulate Francis Halzen on the 2026 @NobelPrize in Physics! The team is very excited to help enable the world-leading science at @NSF South Pole Station! @doescience #Antarctica

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You think Pluto isn't a planet. I think Earth isn't a planet. We are not the same.

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this leaves us with the question of what we call Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. I think we have a lot of options here: - minor planets - dwarf planets - failed planets - wannabe planets - tryhard planets - moons, but for the sun - and my personal favorite: "metals"

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Now I realize some people may object to this view. To those people, I ask this: if an object is so small it can't gravitationally capture the two most common elements in the universe, then how can it even be called a planet?

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Ok I am massively jetlagged so it's time for an astronomy shitpost thread I think, as many do, that the IAU definition of a planet is not great, and that there are not eight planets in the Solar System. Specifically, I believe there are only *four* planets in the solar system.

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