What's the name of our solar system? Can you name some other solar systems?

Question

The Milky Way is the name of our galaxy. Our solar system is in the Milky Way

Answer 1

Solar systems are named after there star, such as in the case of the Gilese system
also the planets are named alphabetically as in Gilese b and c
I think it goes closest A and go down the alphabet as you get away from the sun, or it might be in the order of their discovery

anyway our sun is known as Sol, so our solar system would be the Sol system or the SOLar system, naturally we would name all other solar systems after our own, it is just in human nature

One question I have is would the technical astronomical name of earth, as we would call it if we lived in some other solar system, be Sol c? or just the third planet of the Sol System?

Answer 2

This is a very good question. The answer is all stars with planets revolving around them are referred to as Planetary Systems. Because we have given the name "Sol" to our star, we call it "Solar System".
Some other interesting things we do with "Sol" .... Solar wind, and Solar Power.
Astronomical Unit.
AU = the distance between the Sun and the Earth.
Lum = luminescent with our Sun being the basis for
comparison. Sol = 1 Lum
Also brightness is measured in Magnitude.
Venus in the morning's Eastern sky has a magnitude of -3.3
(-3.3m) The star Vega has a magnitude of 0 (0.0m).
The sun has a magnitude of (-26m), but if it were ten Parsecs (about 33 light years away) it would have be (4.4m).

Answer 3

Our solar system doesnt have a name. The Milky way is the name of our galaxy btw.

Answer 4

The nomenclature for solar systems is a bit cumbersome, and I think that's because until a decade ago, there was only one. We still talk about "the planetary system around star so-and-so", and that's rather long. I expect in the future, as more planetary systems are known, there will be a shorter way of saying that.

Answer 5

Tham 153, directly above me, has it EXACTLY correct!

Our solar system is "The Solar System".

The 55 Cancri system is the star with the most orbiting planets (5 of them) that we've detected thus far. The 5th planet orbiting 55 Cancri was discovered 6 Nov 2007.

For more info on planets outside our solar system, check out this link:

http://exoplanets.org/

Answer 6

We don't have a name for our solar system. It's simply referred to as The Solar System by everyone.

Answer 7

It is called "Our Solar System".
There is something of an understanding that one uses capital letters to distinguish our Sun from other suns and our Moon from other moons (like the moons of Jupiter) and our Galaxy (the Milky Way galaxy).

I've never heard of this rule applied to our Solar System, but I would use it if I needed to distinguish it from others.

Most astronomers, though, talk of "planetary systems" and give them the name of the star(s) around which the system is located, as in "the planetary system of Gliese 581", made up of planets "Gliese 581 b", Gliese 581 c", and so on.

Answer 8

As Cosmo mentioned, the nomenclature could become rather cumbersome, but perhaps not. In most scifi stories you might notice that someone from a distance star will talk about visiting Sol (our solar system), if they want to do a tour of the planets. Visiting a single planet in the system sounds something like, "Hey, let's take our next vacation on Mars." It should be very much like we speak today. If we wish to take in a country we'd say, "I'm going to tour Italy." But visiting just one city we'd say, "I'm going to Rome." On a grand scale, a tour of a star system would name the star, and a tour of a planet would name the planet.

Answer 9

In ancient astronomy, before the telescope was invented, people referred to the Sun, Moon, and the five planets visible with the naked eye as the seven heavenly objects. Each had its own layer of heaven or sky assigned to it, and each was considered to be further and further away from Earth. Today we refer to the layers as the orbit of the object around the Sun.

It was believed by many cultures, and still is by some today, that when people die, their souls float into the sky, visiting each of the Seven Heavenly Objects as they travel to the outermost layer of heaven. When they reach that outermost layer, they are believed to actually meet God, who was/is supposed to exist just above the last layer of heaven, just above the orbit of the planet we currently call Saturn

I guess Heaven is the name of our solar system

Answer 10

Solar systems don't really have a name per se - the stars that support them, however, have names. Traditionally, our sun is called "sol", but I don't think that's how we refere to ourselves officially.