WIRED ScienceIn 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,' Planet Sovereign Defies Physics
One of the great things about movies set in space is that the writers have the opportunity to come up with some fantastically crazy situations. Just look at the planet Sovereign, revealed at the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Don't worry about why the Guardians are on this planet too much—instead, let's just focus on the planet itself. It looks something like this: It's fantastically awesome—and I'm OK with that. However, there is a small physics problem here.
