Politically-Correct Astronomical Names

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Here’s a humorous list of politically correct terms for deep space objects, since all or most were named by racially and culturally uninitiated white males:

Dwarf star: radially challenged star
Big Bang: Large Explosion
Variable Periods: variable magnitude time frame.
Dark Matter: Light Deprived Matter
Eskimo Nebula: High Northern Latitude Indigeonous Peoples Nebula
Orion the Hunter: Orion the White Male Chauvanist Meat-Eating Pillager of the Environment
Hercules and the Hercules cluster: Personcules
Crab Nebula: The Endangered Body Louse Nebula
Northern Cross: Northern Sectarian Symbol Constellation
Scutum: I don’t know. But this sounds like a body part. (ie “I’m sorry Mrs. Jones, you have an inflamed scutum.")
White dwarf: Pigmentally deprived radially challenged star
Black Hole: A hole of color.
Andromeda: The woman oppressed by a white male oligarchy.
Ursa Major & Ursa Minor: Endangered long tailed bears.
Wormhole: segmented vertebrate-challenged hole
Infrared: Frequency challenged invisible light Radio emissions
Minor Planet: mass-challenged solar system object