Talk:Cross Continental Transmit System (WoR episode)/@comment-25110963-20151227190320/@comment-86.61.20.138-20151227204435

I am honestly trying to find ANY official source saying that Sol is the name of our Sun. But it's not. Heck sometimes it's even "The Sun". With the "The" capitalised

"Sol is the Latin name for the Sun."

"The Sun (in Greek: Helios, in Latin: Sol)" "It is sometimes said that "Sol" is an alternative name for the Sun. It is the word for "Sun" in Latin and some modern European languages and is the root of some English words, such as "solar". However, it is not included, on its own and in this sense, in English dictionaries, so it is not considered correct English. Nevertheless, it is sometimes found in science fiction."

-Sol apparently also refers to a day "Martian sol".

-that's from Wikipedia (If you're one of those people who go around saying how everything on wikipedia is made up I don't really care.)

I found this article What is the sun’s proper name?

You sometimes hear people use the name Sol for our sun. If you ask in a public forum like this one (see the comments below), you’ll find many who swear the sun’s proper name is Sol.

Sol is the Roman equivalent of the Greek sun god Helios. And maybe in earlier times people did actually use these names. But neither Sol nor Helios is an official name for the sun, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the international body of astronomers which since 1922 has charged itself with the responsibility for naming celestial bodies.

The IAU does suggest we all use Sun and Moon, rather than the lowercase sun and moon. As a result, most astronomers do capitalize these words (frequently along with other non-standard capitalizations such as Galaxy, Solar System and Universe), but most media organizations (which tend to use media stylebooks such as the AP Stylebook) don’t.

And then they go on and say this: "Bottom line: The International Astronomical Union hasn’t sanctioned an official name for our sun, and our sun doesn’t have a generally accepted and unique proper name in the English language. But, in history and in other languages, the sun does have proper names." Like geez.

'''tl;dr: It's called Sol in fiction because it sounds cooler, but our sun/star is called the Sun. '''