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 Anonymous 2 years ago

Sol is the name. Sun is its role. The earths sun, tatooines sun, etc. Its the SOLar system.

by Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years ago

While not every single star in the night sky is a sun, the likelihood of there being >1 is still high.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

What makes something a sun, according to you? Like, a star of the same type?

by Anonymous 2 years ago

Well naming a star "Sun" is probably the most important qualifier. What makes something a Jeffery, according to you?

by Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years 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 Anonymous 2 years ago

There is only one Sun, and there are still stars during the day, just not visible by the naked eye

by Anonymous 2 years 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.

by Anonymous 2 years ago

There are many stars but only one Sun.

by Anonymous 2 years ago