The way this is phrased makes it sound like there's a certain threshold where this starts happening. That's not right. Even a grain of dust wouldn't orbit the sun, they still orbit their common barycenter. A less misleading way of phrasing would be that Jupiter is massive enough that the barycenter of it and the sun actually lies outside the sun, which is still a cool fun fact.

[–] BillBurBaggins@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I mean that's literally the point the image is trying to make. The last sentence says the point is outside the sun for Jupiter.

I don't think nitpicking the title achieves anything and it's not even misleading unless it's only taken in isolation.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It says it's so massive they orbit a common point. That directly implies this only happens over a certain mass.

[–] Garric@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's the way I understood it at first. But after reading it again after reading the comments above, I can see the other way of viewing it. I do agree with you that how the sentence is currently written it's confusing.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

Yeah pretty much my point. I know you can maybe kinda construe it into the truth if you already know about the topic, like other commenters age saying, but it's presented as educational, and does a poor job at educating with how misleadingly it is phrased.

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