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Asked by winter wolfs to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 17 Jun 2016.
Question: Which star is at the center of our Solar System?
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Kirsty Lindsay answered on 17 Jun 2016:
The Sun, or Sol ( which means Sun in Latin).
It can be a bit confusing because a day on Mars is also called a sol ( no capital letter) and all stars with planets are suns, also without the capital letter.
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spacefan226 commented on :
Where does the name sol (for a Mars day) come from?
Andrea commented on :
In Latin, sol meant sun/sunlight and Old English borrowed it for various things like the word solar. Am guessing that astronomers got lazy writing ‘ Mars Solar Day’ so they abbreviated it..