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BlitzFan1234 t1_ixzw7bx wrote

Reply to comment by snowman-89 in You see more suns at night than in the daytime. by ParticleDetector

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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SyncMeASong t1_iy22gze wrote

Where are all of these r/confidentlyincorrect down votes coming from. How can people be so confident about astronomy, but not know how to use Google or one of the many dictionary sites.

Nothing wrong with OP's use of "sun."

Edit: fixed link

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ParticleDetector OP t1_iy2esm5 wrote

I think I’m seeing a few things happening in the replies.

  1. People thinking I’m using ‘sun’ interchangeably for every star out there regardless if they have planet/s orbiting it.

  2. People thinking I’m using ‘Sun’ the proper noun, instead of of ‘sun’ the common noun. (But I didn’t capitalize ‘sun’ anyway.

  3. People who somehow have not come across the usage of ‘sun’ the common noun in popular media (I’m just so not sure of this one because it’s so common that it’s improbable they missed it.)

Edit : 4. People perhaps thinking that I’m referring to other stars as a sun relative to where we are, when it’s a ‘sun’ relative to the planets orbiting that star. And again common usage in popular media.

I’m as perplexed as you are.

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SyncMeASong t1_iy2fzqr wrote

  1. Someone incorrectly thought they had a "gotcha on a technicality" moment -- and even selectively listed some definitions while omitting others that nullify his statement.

  2. That comment made it to the top early after being jumped on by other people with similar "gotcha" desires.

  3. Now the top comment is simply getting the reflexive subconscious upvotes that top comments get.

Laugh it off. :)

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Kenbujutsu t1_iy011q6 wrote

There are many stars but only one Sun.

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BlitzFan1234 t1_iy01nuw wrote

“A star is called a Sun only if positioned at the centre of a planetary system. And because many stars in the galaxy also have planets orbiting them, this also makes them Suns.” Quote from the https://www.optics-trade.eu website

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Plisq-5 t1_iy133an wrote

So, technically a planet could have two suns if it’s orbiting a binary system?

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