I want to thank everybody who answered my nebula question. No wonder I couldn't find the name of earth's nebula on Google. No, I wasn't confusing nebula with anything else... I swear!
2006-09-06 08:54:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
As others have mentioned, the "Solar System" is called the "Solar System". The reason for this is that the star at its center is called "Sol" (our sun). Other star systems would have different names based on their root star. For example, the star system around Alpha Centauri would be called the Centauri System.
2006-09-06 09:00:20 · answer #1 · answered by toddos1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just Solar System
2006-09-06 16:00:13 · answer #2 · answered by eva b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I think you mean what galaxy is our solar system in and that's the Milky Way Galaxy. The earth is a part of the solar system which revolves around the sun.
2006-09-06 16:03:57 · answer #3 · answered by sexxy1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our solar system is technically a star system, reffered to as the "Solar System" after the sun, a.k.a. Sol. The system around another star would be named after that star in the same way.
2006-09-06 20:32:36 · answer #4 · answered by gryphon254 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sol Solar System after our sun Sol.
2006-09-06 18:17:57 · answer #5 · answered by Mr D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has no name, other than, "The Solar System". It is like "The Moon" or "The Sun" that way. Titan is a moon of Saturn and Polaris is the name of a distant sun, but Earth's moon is just "The Moon" and Earth's sun is just "The Sun", so our solar system is just "The Solar System".
2006-09-06 15:56:58 · answer #6 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually it is not just The solar system...every star that has a system of planets has a Solar System...
I've always been told that we live in the sol System
but thats just what i think
just like just say that a star named frank
worul be the frank system
2006-09-06 16:18:42 · answer #7 · answered by the DIRKSTER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The solar system that Earth is in is named "The Solar System."
2006-09-06 16:54:01 · answer #8 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. "The Solar System". All others would be called star systems.
2006-09-06 15:55:40 · answer #9 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard it called anything else but the solar system. If we were outside looking at it, I guess we'd call it the Sun system.
2006-09-06 15:58:41 · answer #10 · answered by Glenn N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋