Originally published at: The Sun is shrinking 5 feet per hour - Boing Boing
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I feel its pain.
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Hey, the universe is very cold at the moment.
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Regrettably, I have the opposite problem across the plane of my ecliptic 
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Same. Which is why I suck in my tummy and stand up straight before a picture. Sounds like about 100 years ago the sun noticed that Earthlings invented photography.
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Perhaps “the sun’s diameter is shrinking by 5 feet per hour” or “the sun’s circumference is shrinking by about 16 feet per hour”
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The numbers; they boggle my brain.
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Probably not the cause, but wouldn’t you anticipate this? Turning hydrogen into helium is going to result in fewer molecules, after all.
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When I saw my uncle one time in high school he was like, “You’re getting taller. I’m working on width, myself.”
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It is the inevitable machinations of physics 
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“The Sun is shrinking 5 feet per hour”
conservative response: “No it isn’t.”
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MAGA response, “Thanks, Biden!!!” 
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Oh no, Astrophage!!! Look fir a thin line in the IR band!!
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In the very long run that actually makes stars bigger. As the hydrogen in the very center drops, it starts to contract, but that makes fusion possible in a wider shell around it. So the star as a whole expands and its outer layers cool, eventually becoming a subgiant and then red giant.
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“… I won’t know what I think about that until I hear what Jesse Watters has to say about it” 
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This is a reference to the book “Hail Mary” by Andy Weir, the author of “The Martian”.
A Good Read and a great audio book.
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It can’t be, I stare into the sun for hours everyday and it’s exactly the same size it always is. /s
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