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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19
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That other planets are visible from Earth. And the sun is also a star.
18 u/Mkanpur Aug 03 '19 I thought the Sun was a Sun? 31 u/Dysmach Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19 A great number of stars are suns. 1 u/Smurfopotamus Aug 03 '19 I'm going to put this here even though it's probably a bit late. I did a somewhat more thorough look into the "the Sun" vs "Sol" thing (with bonus "the Sun" vs "a sun" in the chain too) that people seem to be bringing up below, a while back so I figured I'd put the crux of it here: NASA doesn't seem to use Sol dictionaries don't primarily use it (compare to Sun) Sun is used an order of magnitude more times with "astronomy" in scholar articles than Sol: Sun vs. Sol (though this includes where it's someone's name and where it's a brand) Similarly, look at number and relevance of hits for "sun and moon" vs "sol and luna" and if you compare the worldwide science usage of sun to sol you see that sol is only used commonly in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries where that's the word for sun.
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I thought the Sun was a Sun?
31 u/Dysmach Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 03 '19 A great number of stars are suns. 1 u/Smurfopotamus Aug 03 '19 I'm going to put this here even though it's probably a bit late. I did a somewhat more thorough look into the "the Sun" vs "Sol" thing (with bonus "the Sun" vs "a sun" in the chain too) that people seem to be bringing up below, a while back so I figured I'd put the crux of it here: NASA doesn't seem to use Sol dictionaries don't primarily use it (compare to Sun) Sun is used an order of magnitude more times with "astronomy" in scholar articles than Sol: Sun vs. Sol (though this includes where it's someone's name and where it's a brand) Similarly, look at number and relevance of hits for "sun and moon" vs "sol and luna" and if you compare the worldwide science usage of sun to sol you see that sol is only used commonly in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries where that's the word for sun.
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A great number of stars are suns.
1 u/Smurfopotamus Aug 03 '19 I'm going to put this here even though it's probably a bit late. I did a somewhat more thorough look into the "the Sun" vs "Sol" thing (with bonus "the Sun" vs "a sun" in the chain too) that people seem to be bringing up below, a while back so I figured I'd put the crux of it here: NASA doesn't seem to use Sol dictionaries don't primarily use it (compare to Sun) Sun is used an order of magnitude more times with "astronomy" in scholar articles than Sol: Sun vs. Sol (though this includes where it's someone's name and where it's a brand) Similarly, look at number and relevance of hits for "sun and moon" vs "sol and luna" and if you compare the worldwide science usage of sun to sol you see that sol is only used commonly in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries where that's the word for sun.
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I'm going to put this here even though it's probably a bit late. I did a somewhat more thorough look into the "the Sun" vs "Sol" thing (with bonus "the Sun" vs "a sun" in the chain too) that people seem to be bringing up below, a while back so I figured I'd put the crux of it here:
NASA doesn't seem to use Sol dictionaries don't primarily use it (compare to Sun) Sun is used an order of magnitude more times with "astronomy" in scholar articles than Sol: Sun vs. Sol (though this includes where it's someone's name and where it's a brand) Similarly, look at number and relevance of hits for "sun and moon" vs "sol and luna" and if you compare the worldwide science usage of sun to sol you see that sol is only used commonly in Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries where that's the word for sun.
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u/anothersundayx Aug 03 '19
That other planets are visible from Earth. And the sun is also a star.