[gorbot]

I'm dumb and barely understand things at a high level, but standard candles never sat right with me so it's interesting to hear that they might not be, but then again who knows.

[jiggawatts]

The idea is that standard candles are based on chemistry and microscopic physics only, not cosmology.

[alfiedotwtf]

If I remember correctly (sorry it’s been a while), the size of the star determines its colour, and the data suggests that the colour of stars fits nicely into the mass of a star (ie you’ll never see a star of X color thats Y kg)