Neptune-sized exoplanet is too big for its host star
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Stars this small shouldn't make planets this big.
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I find it interesting that they didn't suggest the possibility that came to my mind first: cannibalization. If it was small to start with, but in clearing the neighborhood, also was volcanic enough to absorb smaller planetoids, it might have absorbed them and grown.