Here's Your Chance to Name an Alien Planet

sm-goldies (53)in #dlike • 5 years ago

There's a whole universe of nameless stars and exoplanets beyond our solar system, and now space fans around the world will have a chance to help name these objects.

As part of its 100th anniversary celebrating, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a society of astronomers with the sole authority to name celestial objects, is giving every country on Earth the chance to name an exoplanet and the star it orbits. (The IAU also famously stripped Pluto of its planetary status in 2006.)

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stayoutoftherz (68) 5 years ago

Shame on them, I will never forgive them that they took us Pluto as the 9th planet.

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