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No, there's only one solar system in the entire universe. There's countless star systems though, but only one of those stars is named Sol. /pedant
by shiroiushi 2y ago
No, there's only one solar system in the entire universe. There's countless star systems though, but only one of those stars is named Sol.
/pedant
- thfuran 2y agoYou can't know that there's only one named sol by the locals.
- Yeul 2y agoOne day we'll be sued by aliens for trademark infringement.
- WhitneyLand 2y agoIf that’s where we’re going I’ll try to pedant-raise you. Assuming the cosmological principle is true and the universe is infinite, wouldn’t we be guaranteed an infinite number of Sols? ;)
- patrickmcnamara 2y agoDo people actually call the Sun "Sol"? I thought that was more of a video game thing.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThe Romance languages use that name (or something very closely related). English uses "Sun", but just as it borrows a ton of stuff from Latin/French/etc., it also borrows "Sol" for its word "solar". Also, Captain Archer in Enterprise used the name Sol when making contact with aliens.
- wongarsu 2y agoAnd in Germanic mythology the personification of the sun is Sól. In PIE it's sunnōn. In some languages that evolved to some variation of sun or son, in some to became sol (notably Latin). And many use both variations in some capacity
- Quekid5 2y agoI can't think of any English-speaking places that do... but you see it used in "solar", for example.
- fimdomeio 2y agoIf you speak Portuguese or Spanish, yes.
- sph 2y agoLatins and medieval scientists did. In Italian we call it "Sole".
- konart 2y agoIt's Солнце (Solntse) in Russian.
- skibz 2y agoWe live in what's known as a planetary system. Star systems involve only stars.