Renee: I just heard about the red star, Octorus, and that I could have a planet or sub stellar object orbiting it 12 times larger than Jupiter. The difference is if you start getting much bigger than Jupiter, we don't really call them planets anymore. They're like brown dwarfs. Matt: Is it a planet or is it a failed star? It depends on how it formed.
Can we use gravitational lensing to view distant planets? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore black holes, quasars, entropy, and more with astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd.
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