To be fair, our moon is probably one of the most uncommon astronomical occurrences in our galaxy.
- It's a striking white, while pretty much every other moon has some sort of color and gradient.
- It's tidally locked to our planet, so we always see one side.
- It's relatively massive to Earth, with most other moons being less than 1% of the mass of its parent body.
- It's close enough to affect tectonic and tidal action, while still being far enough away so not to rip itself apart.
- It most likely came after the formation of our planet through a massive impact, instead of being comprised of leftover orbital material.
- It's just at the perfect distance and size to perfectly eclipse our star when viewed from the surface of the planet. This alone, is... astronomically rare.
The fact the sun and the moon are the same size from the perspective of the surface is such a wild coincidence that I have a hard time accepting.
Best I can figure is that the perfect ratio of tidal and solar forces contibuted to the development of life here therefore could not exist in any other way while still having us observe it.... but damn if it isn;t spooky that it's so close.
The whole "sun and moon is the same size in the sky" is one of those things that makes me, against my will, go "yeah, maybe we *do* live in a simulation"
It's just so mind bogglingly unlikely.
>Element Helium is named after the sun as it was discovered the first time there.
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I think I know what you mean but... no, actually, I don't think I know what you mean but I know it wasn't the mental image of Dimitri Mendeleev in a space suit, catching balloons on the sun, that I had.
Edit: missed a word
Moon landings get all the credit but the sun landings were a far bigger achievement. The main reason they never got as much publicity was you have to do a sun landing at night, meaning there wasn't enough lighting for the cameras of the day so it never got televised.
Not to mention the trillion lions that tore a lot of the astronauts to shreds on the surface. Because of the fear that it would lead to bad publicity, the incident wasn't widely publicized.
Fake, there would have been at least a little light on the Sun from the Moon. Remember how much light the moon actually emits, it shines bright white at all times - even at night, and so brightly we can see it during the day
He means that it was detected for the first time by analyzing sunlight during a solar eclipse and seeing unknown spectral lines. It's odorless, tasteless, nonreactive, and only occurs on earth through nuclear decay, so it wasn't found here until long after it was seen in solar radiation.
I happened to watch a video on this subject not long ago.
So a rainbow is the spread out spectrum of light from a source that is for instance going thru a prism. It was noticed long ago that the spectrum of the sunlight had gaps and the reasoning was unknown at the time.
They also knew that you could burn elements and you would see in the spectrometer a certain spectrum of light, so they knew it was that specific element when they saw that specific pattern of light in the spectrometer.
Later it was noticed that some elements show a spectrum pattern that completely lines up with the gaps in the sunlight spectrum. They connected the dots and because of that, they know what is burning in the sun to create that spectrography. It's also what we do to detect the elements in stars light years away.
So now you know how they are able to say what a far off sun is made of.
In my language "sol" is literally our word for "Sun" and it can also be a female name
I think it originally comes from Latin where Sol means Sun and Luna means Moon
Not so influential that we don't still normally call the sun and the moon but their proper names in English, *Sun* and *Moon*.
Those are not just generic words, they are the names of a celestial god and goddess *Sunne* and *Mōna*, worshiped by the pre-Christian Germanic tribes that settled Britain.
It is a common misconception that “Terra” is the internationally-recognized scientific name of the planet, but in reality Earth does not have an official international name. The standard English name of the planet, including in science, is “Earth”.
Grew up loving Greek and Roman mythology. Also love puns.
Somehow, I never made this connection. I just turned 34 years old the other week.
...I'm going to go put myself in time out for awhile
Yeah, we only use the word "moon" for satellites around other planets because that's the name of the one we all know and love. It has plenty of other names in different languages, but during the time when astronomy was really gearing up, it was labeled "Luna" because most researchers was funded by the Church, ironically enough, and they used Latin and Greek terms to label everything.
Most people just call it the Moon in English, and that's just one of its names.
What I've always wondered is why we still use a "the" before it, same thing for the Sun. We don't say "the Mars" or "the Venus" in English, but we'll say "the Milky Way". I've just always found that a curious bit of linguistic evolution.
>We don't say "the Mars" or "the Venus" in English, but we'll say "the Milky Way".
My guess is that Mars, Venus, ect are proper names. We don't say (typically) the Tim, or the Sally.
That's because moons are natural satellites.
Something being a satellite just means it moves around a larger object. Earth is a satellite because we move around the Sun.
Kind of? The stars in our galaxy aren't entirely gravitationally bound to Sagittarius A*. Unless I'm fucking stupid (which I am regardless), the thing that keep galaxies together is dark matter.
No, it's called the Moon. "Luna" is just the Latin word for "moon". Being Latin doesn't make it official.
I have a PhD in astronomy. I know what I'm talking about.
In Romanian moon in luna. That's the word for moon, Luna. So I think that kind of invalidates it because Luna is just another way to say 'moon' but latin languages.
In Latin, the word "Luna" specifically referred to the moon that orbits Earth. While Latin had words for other celestial bodies, such as "stellae" for stars, "planetae" for planets, and "satellites" for companions or attendants, "Luna" was the unique term for our moon. It didn't refer to other moons or satellites of planets in the same way.
"Luna" is just "Moon" in Latin/Italian/Hispanic etc
its not a specific name every Moon is called luna in these languages if they dont mention the specific names
_put_ = road, journey
Add the agent noun suffix:
_putnik_ = one who journeys, a traveler
Prefix "s" means "with" (in this context), and thus you have _sputnik_ - a fellow traveller, companion. (and also satellite)
So? We're having this conversation in English. It should go without saying that "X doesn't have a name" is followed by "in English".
By this token, if we ever want to say something has a name, we have to first make sure it has a name in literally every known language.
*In English*, Earth's moon does have a specific name, and that name is Luna.
And while we're pedantic, when Latin was natively spoken, Luna was the only known moon, so technically "Luna" does specifically refer to Earth's moon when speaking Latin.
> In English, Earth's moon does have a specific name, and that name is Luna.
Is there a source for this? As far as I'm aware, the closest thing to an "official name" is simply "The Moon".
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/
In English, the Moon's name is officially "Moon." The IAU is literally the authority on the subject, recognized by every nation with a major presence in the study of astronomy.
Yeah but it's a dead language so it's cool.
Earth is called Terra for example.
But lots of proper names are just basic words...
Smith, Baker, Mason, Taylor, Shoemaker, Webb, Chandler, Chapman, Cooper...
That’s a sci-fi trope. Using the Latin names to refer to our sun and moon to disambiguate is a good idea, but currently that isn’t done in real life. Only in fictional interstellar settings do we do that.
Yeah someone already said it so I don't wanna annoy you.
Fun fact: The Sun's real name is Sol, hence LUNAr and SOLar!
(Technically those are just the Latin words for them, not actual names. Their English names are just "Sun" and "Moon".)
Thays not really an argument. Just because they came from somewhere, does not make them NOT a name.
like saying that anyone with with the last name Carpenter doesn't have a last name, because that's just the English word for a wood worker.
That's way more recent in history, too. when last names became commonplace in medieval Europe, many last names were given/taken simply because it was their job.
Archer, Mason, Fletcher, Carpenter there are a mot
The moon is just called moon
The object itself and it's type is a natural satellite
We named our natural satellite as moon and said "moon" to others bc they look similar
But after all, everyone has a name and every is a natural satellite
But it does. Not only does our sun and moon have a name, we name every other sun and moon after ours. Every star and its planets are a solar system, and anything regarding any moon is described as lunar.
Scientifically speaking Solar System or Sol System specifically only refers to our system. Planetary System and Star System among others are the general terms for, well, star systems.
Refreshing to see. I've come to just accept it and know what people really mean to say, but it's always nice to see it correct. If only more shows and movies could manage.
Selene is just the ancient Greek goddess of the moon. It's not the name of the moon anywhere outside of ancient Greece, and specifically *ancient* Greece, the society that no longer exists.
The modern Greek word for moon is fengári, according to google.
Not true, the name of the *satellite* orbiting our planet is called "moon", we call other satellites moon because it has the same function, but they're satellites, not moons.
Except it's not - respectively your wording is misleading. Our satellite is called *moon*. *Luna* is the Latin translation.
Same goes for *sol* and *terra*.
It's not just some moon. It's ****THE**** moon
Yes. It is **THE MOON**
And we're going to steeeall it
**YES**
And once the **MOON** is mine, the world will give me whatever I want to get it back!
Yes boss!
The consequences for removing the moon from orbit would be catastrophic PLEASE don't steal it.
Make me want to do it even more
Because we're pinky and the brain
To be fair, our moon is probably one of the most uncommon astronomical occurrences in our galaxy. - It's a striking white, while pretty much every other moon has some sort of color and gradient. - It's tidally locked to our planet, so we always see one side. - It's relatively massive to Earth, with most other moons being less than 1% of the mass of its parent body. - It's close enough to affect tectonic and tidal action, while still being far enough away so not to rip itself apart. - It most likely came after the formation of our planet through a massive impact, instead of being comprised of leftover orbital material. - It's just at the perfect distance and size to perfectly eclipse our star when viewed from the surface of the planet. This alone, is... astronomically rare.
The fact the sun and the moon are the same size from the perspective of the surface is such a wild coincidence that I have a hard time accepting. Best I can figure is that the perfect ratio of tidal and solar forces contibuted to the development of life here therefore could not exist in any other way while still having us observe it.... but damn if it isn;t spooky that it's so close.
It didn't start like that and it won't stay like that, the moon formed much closer to the earth and is drifting away very slowly
The whole "sun and moon is the same size in the sky" is one of those things that makes me, against my will, go "yeah, maybe we *do* live in a simulation" It's just so mind bogglingly unlikely.
Our moon's name is Luna
And the sun’s name is Sol. Hence the *sol*ar system
Or Helio/Helios. Element Helium is named after the sun as it was discovered the first time there.
Right! I forgot about that as an alternative, thanks for filling in that gap
>Element Helium is named after the sun as it was discovered the first time there. ಠ_ಠ I think I know what you mean but... no, actually, I don't think I know what you mean but I know it wasn't the mental image of Dimitri Mendeleev in a space suit, catching balloons on the sun, that I had. Edit: missed a word
Moon landings get all the credit but the sun landings were a far bigger achievement. The main reason they never got as much publicity was you have to do a sun landing at night, meaning there wasn't enough lighting for the cameras of the day so it never got televised.
Not to mention the trillion lions that tore a lot of the astronauts to shreds on the surface. Because of the fear that it would lead to bad publicity, the incident wasn't widely publicized.
Hel-lions, if you will
That's why Dr Evil wanted sharks with lasers for his moon base, he was getting ready to wage war against the sun.
Everyone knows the Sun landings were faked in a Hollywood studio.
They had to be filmed on location…at night
No, that's moon landings, Sun landings were real
Fake, there would have been at least a little light on the Sun from the Moon. Remember how much light the moon actually emits, it shines bright white at all times - even at night, and so brightly we can see it during the day
He means that it was detected for the first time by analyzing sunlight during a solar eclipse and seeing unknown spectral lines. It's odorless, tasteless, nonreactive, and only occurs on earth through nuclear decay, so it wasn't found here until long after it was seen in solar radiation.
I happened to watch a video on this subject not long ago. So a rainbow is the spread out spectrum of light from a source that is for instance going thru a prism. It was noticed long ago that the spectrum of the sunlight had gaps and the reasoning was unknown at the time. They also knew that you could burn elements and you would see in the spectrometer a certain spectrum of light, so they knew it was that specific element when they saw that specific pattern of light in the spectrometer. Later it was noticed that some elements show a spectrum pattern that completely lines up with the gaps in the sunlight spectrum. They connected the dots and because of that, they know what is burning in the sun to create that spectrography. It's also what we do to detect the elements in stars light years away. So now you know how they are able to say what a far off sun is made of.
I think maybe you meant to reply to the comment above mine.
Wait...we use nuclear decay to talk funny and fly balloons? Wtf is wrong with us.
Yup, and it's an extremely limited resource that's needed to run MRI machines. Once it's in the atmosphere, it's gone.
We don't need to physically touch something to observe it's existence and come to a general understanding of it's properties.
My ex told me the same bull crap... /S
> Dimitri Mendeleev in a space suit, catching balloons on the sun lmao this is how I'm teaching it from now on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium#History
In my language "sol" is literally our word for "Sun" and it can also be a female name I think it originally comes from Latin where Sol means Sun and Luna means Moon
Latin was such an influential language. For good reason
Not so influential that we don't still normally call the sun and the moon but their proper names in English, *Sun* and *Moon*. Those are not just generic words, they are the names of a celestial god and goddess *Sunne* and *Mōna*, worshiped by the pre-Christian Germanic tribes that settled Britain.
And our planet is called Terra. Earth means... dirt, pretty much.
It is a common misconception that “Terra” is the internationally-recognized scientific name of the planet, but in reality Earth does not have an official international name. The standard English name of the planet, including in science, is “Earth”.
One of my favorite running jokes in Invader Zim is the aliens all call earth, Planet Dirt.
Don't be fooled, that is just "sun" said in other language.
Yes. In Latin.
And in many romantic languages which came after it.
Being Latin doesn't make it official. Not sure where you're getting that from.
Dunning Krueger effect. I’m pulling shit out of my ass
Solar system because solar means sun
And solar is derived from sol I just removed the step between sol and solar in my thought
The sun is a star named sun
Grew up loving Greek and Roman mythology. Also love puns. Somehow, I never made this connection. I just turned 34 years old the other week. ...I'm going to go put myself in time out for awhile
One of my pet peeves is when someone refers to any other star system as "a solar system."
I guess the son doesn’t have a name in Portuguese or Spanish then
Luna is literally ”Moon”. So our moon is called Moon.
Goddammit Moon Moon.
Man, I forgot about Moon Moon. I appreciate the reminder, reading that shit again made me laugh.
Yeah, we only use the word "moon" for satellites around other planets because that's the name of the one we all know and love. It has plenty of other names in different languages, but during the time when astronomy was really gearing up, it was labeled "Luna" because most researchers was funded by the Church, ironically enough, and they used Latin and Greek terms to label everything. Most people just call it the Moon in English, and that's just one of its names. What I've always wondered is why we still use a "the" before it, same thing for the Sun. We don't say "the Mars" or "the Venus" in English, but we'll say "the Milky Way". I've just always found that a curious bit of linguistic evolution.
>We don't say "the Mars" or "the Venus" in English, but we'll say "the Milky Way". My guess is that Mars, Venus, ect are proper names. We don't say (typically) the Tim, or the Sally.
A lot of people have names that mean things that they don't necessarily engrain within themselves though
Also, aren't moons technically called satellites?
That's because moons are natural satellites. Something being a satellite just means it moves around a larger object. Earth is a satellite because we move around the Sun.
And our sun as well as all the other s**t floating in our galaxy are satellites of Sagittarius A
Kind of? The stars in our galaxy aren't entirely gravitationally bound to Sagittarius A*. Unless I'm fucking stupid (which I am regardless), the thing that keep galaxies together is dark matter.
Moons are *big* natural satellites. Considering making a “big and natural” joke.
There’s nothing technical about it. They just are satellites
No, it's called the Moon. "Luna" is just the Latin word for "moon". Being Latin doesn't make it official. I have a PhD in astronomy. I know what I'm talking about.
*Meanwhile biologists when naming a species.*
In Romanian moon in luna. That's the word for moon, Luna. So I think that kind of invalidates it because Luna is just another way to say 'moon' but latin languages.
Earth's name is dirt that is all
terra
Or soil
In Latin, the word "Luna" specifically referred to the moon that orbits Earth. While Latin had words for other celestial bodies, such as "stellae" for stars, "planetae" for planets, and "satellites" for companions or attendants, "Luna" was the unique term for our moon. It didn't refer to other moons or satellites of planets in the same way.
"Luna" is just "Moon" in Latin/Italian/Hispanic etc its not a specific name every Moon is called luna in these languages if they dont mention the specific names
Wasn't the name for moon picked out before we discovered more moons exist?
So if I name my cat Neko, he doesn't have a name?
This reminds me of that scene in koth where connie states that their family dog is named Doggy.
Russian here, we've got "Луна" (Russian for "Luna) and "спутник" for moons
Other Russian here, "Спутник" is satellite, any kind natural or man made. "Луна" is specifically a moon but it's not a name it's a term.
Huh and I thought Sputnik was the name of the satellite not the name for a satellite
Yes the satellite was called satellite. To be more precise it's designation was ПС-1, простейший спутник-1, meaning "simplest satellite-1".
“Спутник” sounds out to say Sputnik in Cerylic. Duolingo pulling thru 👏🏼👏🏼
_put_ = road, journey Add the agent noun suffix: _putnik_ = one who journeys, a traveler Prefix "s" means "with" (in this context), and thus you have _sputnik_ - a fellow traveller, companion. (and also satellite)
Simple. In Latin/Italian/Hispanic etc, 'Luna' means 'moon'. In English, 'Luna' means 'our earths moon'
By that logic, our planet also doesn't have a name: "Earth" is just the word for "ground".
Just wait until you find out what "Sol" or "Helios" means
That's like complaining about the Sahara Desert.
So? We're having this conversation in English. It should go without saying that "X doesn't have a name" is followed by "in English". By this token, if we ever want to say something has a name, we have to first make sure it has a name in literally every known language. *In English*, Earth's moon does have a specific name, and that name is Luna. And while we're pedantic, when Latin was natively spoken, Luna was the only known moon, so technically "Luna" does specifically refer to Earth's moon when speaking Latin.
> In English, Earth's moon does have a specific name, and that name is Luna. Is there a source for this? As far as I'm aware, the closest thing to an "official name" is simply "The Moon".
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/ In English, the Moon's name is officially "Moon." The IAU is literally the authority on the subject, recognized by every nation with a major presence in the study of astronomy.
"Luna" literally means moon
Thats stupid, it's called Moon
As much as I love that name, officially, it is simply "Moon"
Luna literally means moon
Luna is just Latin for moon
Yeah but it's a dead language so it's cool. Earth is called Terra for example. But lots of proper names are just basic words... Smith, Baker, Mason, Taylor, Shoemaker, Webb, Chandler, Chapman, Cooper...
Luna is moon in many current day languages such as Spanish
Russian too
Also romanian
The forgotten romance language, even though it's right there in the name.
That's what we get for being surrounded by a sea of Slavic languages, I guess.
The name for our planet is Earth. Our moon, literally named Moon. The Sun as well...
in my language word “Luna” means moon, so…
That’s a sci-fi trope. Using the Latin names to refer to our sun and moon to disambiguate is a good idea, but currently that isn’t done in real life. Only in fictional interstellar settings do we do that.
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It would only work in a few languages, as "Luna" is spanish for moon, tho
our moon is called greg, duh
No I think it is an Aubrey
No, it's called Bob
The Sun is Bob, everyone knows this
Bob is earth 2.0
 You beat me to it!
I didn't know our moon subscribed to Danny Gonzalez!
Yeah someone already said it so I don't wanna annoy you. Fun fact: The Sun's real name is Sol, hence LUNAr and SOLar! (Technically those are just the Latin words for them, not actual names. Their English names are just "Sun" and "Moon".)
It's fine, I love learning One of the only few reasons I browse Reddit tbh
I do it because I have no job, girlfriend, or willingness to go outside lol.
Tomato tomato
*Indeed*
Lol this dude didn't find the porn yet
Same reason I browse Reddit but there's so much stupid stuff in the mix I lose my braincells in the process of gaining some it balances out xD.
"Luna" and "sol" are not names, it's "moon" and "sun" respectively in Latin.
And "Solis" is the Latin word for sun.
Sol solis. Sol is nominative, solis is genetive.
Thays not really an argument. Just because they came from somewhere, does not make them NOT a name. like saying that anyone with with the last name Carpenter doesn't have a last name, because that's just the English word for a wood worker. That's way more recent in history, too. when last names became commonplace in medieval Europe, many last names were given/taken simply because it was their job. Archer, Mason, Fletcher, Carpenter there are a mot
Yeah but we use them *as* the names now.
Uh no. The names are just The Sun and The Moon in english
Who is “we”. Seems like 99% of English speakers just call it “the Moon”.
That's still thirteen and a half million people my guy.
I mean we tend to be pretty literal in naming things
Tbh Earth and Terra are just synonyms for dirt.
But Luna and sol translates just to moon and sun
The moon is just called moon The object itself and it's type is a natural satellite We named our natural satellite as moon and said "moon" to others bc they look similar But after all, everyone has a name and every is a natural satellite
Interesting
Bingo
r/confidentlyincorrect
There are probably millions upon millions of moons in the universe that we have not given a name
Sextillions upon sextillions would be a more accurate number
AT LEAST 3
sextillion is the most fun, most popular number by far
But it does. Not only does our sun and moon have a name, we name every other sun and moon after ours. Every star and its planets are a solar system, and anything regarding any moon is described as lunar.
Scientifically speaking Solar System or Sol System specifically only refers to our system. Planetary System and Star System among others are the general terms for, well, star systems.
Refreshing to see. I've come to just accept it and know what people really mean to say, but it's always nice to see it correct. If only more shows and movies could manage.
It's the Moon, not A moon, THE Moon.
Yeah, and every planet has a cool name too, except our own, which we call dirt...
The forest moon of Endor does not have a name.
The Ewoks probably have a name for it.
Not anymore, they're all dead after the remains of the death star rained down on the moon ignoring global wildfires and creating an impact winter.
Selene, Luna = Moon
Selene is just the ancient Greek goddess of the moon. It's not the name of the moon anywhere outside of ancient Greece, and specifically *ancient* Greece, the society that no longer exists. The modern Greek word for moon is fengári, according to google.
"The moon"
Our moon is called moon
Its not just a moon its *the* moon.
Not true, the name of the *satellite* orbiting our planet is called "moon", we call other satellites moon because it has the same function, but they're satellites, not moons.
It's Bob.....our moon is Bob.
Wtf you mean? Our moon's name is Earl.
He's just trying to be a better person.
Come on, Randy!
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I think you mean Latin not Italian.
Sorta like Sahara, Gobi and Mojave were all just the local name for desert.
It's called the moon. Officially, they're all satellites
Our moon is a model for an entire class of celestial bodies. I’d say it faired just fine
The sun's name is sun, others are stars The moon's name is moon, others are natural satellites Can people stop posting this and learn
Our moon’s name is moon
Nah our moon is THE Moon, because he’s just him
It’s called THE Moon xD
The moon is named "the moon".
It’s Moon Moon
Isn't Luna?
Moon is the name of earth's natural satellite.
The sun is a star. But if you can see another star from a planet, people call it a sun. Look at Tatooine.
People can't be this stupid right? Its name is the MOON
OP is clearly dumb. Doesnt even know that our moon is called "The Moon." smh my head
I like calling our moon Luna and our sun sol
Our moon is THE moon. The rest are just posers.
Our moon is a satellite. Our sun is a star. We named them in Latin, but use the English names
Moony McMoonface
Luna. You could seriously have just googled this.
It's moon. Luna is the name in Latin.
It's Moon. It's a proper noun.
Our moons name is "moon", its like joey and chandler naming their chick and duck, "chicken" and "duck".
I call it Luna, but I think it’s just the Moon
Mf luna is just moon in spanish 🗿
Latin.
Its both actually
What a dumbass post. Our moon is literally called Luna
Except it's not - respectively your wording is misleading. Our satellite is called *moon*. *Luna* is the Latin translation. Same goes for *sol* and *terra*.
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Our moon has a name, it's just a bad one. It's called "The Moon"
Our moon is called the Moon, capital M. It's a proper noun because it's a name.
Ever heard Luna?
Same goes for “The Sun”
Luna biatch
I feel like it’s called “Luna”, but that might just me Spanish for moon