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Giant planet around tiny star 'should not exist':

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49855058

Edit: A later thread that may be of interest:
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Here's one way, perhaps, we might get there one day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_ship

reuters.com/article/US-science-astronomy-water/Water found in atmosphere of planet beyond our solar system:
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Origins of Pluto, the Disney cartoon character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto_(Disney)#Origin

Pluto in astrology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_in_astrology#Pluto

Here's the wiki on the asteroid belt (somewhat related to the above):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_belt

Speaking of planets etc., near and far, here's the wiki re: extraterrestrial life, fwiw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life

Note that the accepted nomenclature for planets in its entirety is faintly silly at the moment IMO, in that all planets outside our solar system (i.e. not revolving around our star [the sun], but...

Bumping up this poll thread, in the hope of more votes still to come.

Personally I feel that the definition of a planet could prove malleable, if not arbitrary, so I won't be surprised if astronomers change their minds about Pluto's status yet again. There's already...

10 votes and the majority consider Pluto a planet. Interesting.

We're up to seven votes to date for this fun poll, a pretty good rate for any poll on this Discussion book (not taking into account those within forums for meetings of, e.g., CFC Voting Members).

Google's definition of a Dwarf Planet, for what it's worth:

"a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such."
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Another bump for this poll thread.

Bumping the thread up again - more votes still trickling in!

Bumping up this fun poll thread again.

Bumping up this fun poll thread.

Here's a non-chess topic fun poll on a topic that's perhaps mildly controversial, namely whether to consider Pluto a planet. That's in spite of knowing that astronomers not that many years ago...