Historically, astronomers have often appointed things in a creative way, strange already often inaccurate. But what terms are the most atrocious?
In the universe, there are all kinds of fascinating objects, phenomena and events that have been predicted, theorized or directly observed. Some of them are named quite intuitively, since we have no problem with names such as the stars -forming region or the stellar remnant. Others are named a little more poetically, such as Kugelblitzwhich refers to a black (theoretical) hole formed only by radiation, or Syrygywhich is the alignment of three (or more) astronomical bodies. Others are words derived from acronyms, with objects such as quasars Derived from the acronym Qsrs: sources of quasi stellar radio. While astronomers are known for inventing unnecessary acronyms (astronomer Glen Petitpas He has created a silly astronomical or too forced acronomic siteo Doofaas database), we can go further and look at the names of astronomy that are complete nomeres: named in such a way that the literal meaning of the words used to describe the object or the phenomenon inaccurately represent what it really is .
That is the investigation of Patreon’s supporter, Tim Graham, who was reading This recent article about T…
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