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You see more suns at night than in the daytime. amirite?
by Anonymous1 year ago
This is objectively incorrect, the Sun is the name for OUR star, there are not multiple suns.
"The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System."
"The star round which the earth orbits."
Couple of definitions
"Sun" isn't a label for a type of star or a different name for a star, it's just a name for the star we orbit, people often get confused as we call our moon, the moon, and other natural satellites, moons, some articles will say suns instead of stars to not confuse those with rather bad astronomy knowledge.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Sol is the name. Sun is its role. The earths sun, tatooines sun, etc. Its the SOLar system.
by Anonymous1 year ago
If you're big into dictionary definitions, wiktionary has the following:
"A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system"
And OED lists:
"any star around which planets move"
The thing is, the usage of a word determines its meaning, not any one definition.
And the word _sun_ is in fact habitually used to mean 'star,' just read or listen to works of sci-fi I guess.
If you pretend it's not, you're simply not capturing the full meaning.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Popular media has made it such that some people do call other stars ‘sun' though.
e.g
Krypton's red sun
tattoine's twins suns
Romulan sun
Etcetc
So much so that I think many people would imagine standing on an alien planet, looking up at their version of the star the planet is orbiting, and casually say ‘damn the sun is sure hot today'.
by Anonymous1 year ago
Whatever planet you ate orbiting is "the sun".
If you find yourself in interstellar space or around another star you could refer to *the sun* as "my sun/star" or "our sun/star".
by Anonymous1 year ago
I have never heard that definition in my life, well, except on WalesOnline.. hardly a good source.
The Sun is the name of our star, the reason people use sun for stars is due to a misconception, thinking that sun is simply a synonym for stars.
Most dictionaries define the Sun as the star which the earth orbits.
by Anonymous1 year ago
It's has never been uttered realistically that way because nobody has ever been close to another star.
But it makes perfect sense in science fiction
by Anonymous1 year ago
While not every single star in the night sky is a sun, the likelihood of there being >1 is still high.
by Anonymous1 year ago
What makes something a sun, according to you?
Like, a star of the same type?
by Anonymous1 year ago
Well naming a star "Sun" is probably the most important qualifier. What makes something a Jeffery, according to you?
by Anonymous1 year ago
Haha, I mean you're right. A Jeffery, like all concepts, is simply that which we habitually call a Jeffery. Which can be many different things I guess
Not all Karens are named Karen either ;)
by Anonymous1 year ago
> the luminous celestial body around which the earth and other planets revolve
I'd say a star that provides anything for the bodies revolving around it, even if it's just that gravity guidance, is a sun. A star solo-drifting off in space wouldn't be a sun in my mind, but I'm also not an astronomer so what do I know!
by Anonymous1 year ago
There is only one Sun, and there are still stars during the day, just not visible by the naked eye
by Anonymous1 year ago
Technically all stars that have orbiting planets are suns. While you are correct that the stars are there during the day you can't see them therefore ops point still stands.
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