Ancient Romans had the luxury of naming planets after their coolest gods, while modern astronomers are stuck with alphanumeric soup! Jupiter gets a majestic name befitting its massive size, but exoplanets get catalog numbers that sound like printer error codes. Imagine discovering a potentially habitable world and having to call it "OGLE-05-390L b" at conferences. No wonder that astronomer is facepalming while throwing darts—they're probably aiming at whoever designed the naming convention. Next groundbreaking discovery? Probably named HD-404-ERROR-PLANET-NOT-FOUND.
The Great Cosmic Naming Crisis
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