Is there a star called Wormwood in our solar system?
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The sun is the only star in our solar system (though you could make a case that Jupiter is companion star that didn't get quite big enough to light up).
I've never heard of a star named Wormwood. I think this might actually be a reference to the rock group "Wormwood Star: (see link)
- or, it could be a biblical reference:
Wormwood, The Star
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)
In Revelation 8:11, the name is figurative, given to a great star which, at the sounding of the third angel's trumpet, fell from heaven upon the third part of the rivers and on the fountains of the waters, turning them to a bitterness of which many died. Wormwood is used of bitter calamities (of Lamentations 3:15), and may here indicate some judgement, inflicted under a noted leader, affecting chiefly the internal sources of a country's prosperity. Older expositors, applying the earlier trumpets to the downfall of the Roman empire, saw in the star a symbol of the barbarian invasions of Attila or Genseric.
(see the 2nd link for more).
There is only one star in our solar sytem, and that's the Sun. So no.
There is only one star in our solar system and thats the sun but I dont think it has a name,its like the moon,the only moon in our solar sysem without a name.
Nope. Not a star, planet, moon, comet or asteroid with that name anywhere in our solar system.
There is not.
I believe you are referring to the Book of Revelations, in which Wormword is one of the seven trumpets - a star that falls to earth and poisons all the lifegiving sources of water.
Many scholar believe this may actually be a comet that will disintigrate in the atmosphere and land in many freshwater loactions, poisoning them.
However, as this is from the Bible, I wouldn't worry too much about it relating to actual astronomical phenomenon as as lot of the Bible is open to interpretation.
All i can say is that a star cannot really fall to Earth as stars are millions of times bigger than Earth, so if anything, Earth will fall int a star.
Finally, there is only one star in our solar system. The term solar system refers to matter orbiting a star (or sometimes two stars). Solar means Star.
NO. Our solar system has only one star. We call it the sun.
http://www.ips.gov.au/ipshosted/neo/inde...
The sun, "Sol", is the only star in our solar system (our star and 8 planets along with smaller local objects). There are planets that orbit in binary systems where there are more than one star though. I have never heard of any star nicknamed wormwood, but it is possibly since people give all sorts of nicknames to stars to give them a little more personality than their official catalog number/name.
Also I think it is important to point out that Jupiter would not be a companion star because it formed with the gaseous planets as far as we can tell and not with the sun. Also it needs to be about 10x as massive to even be considered a Brown Dwarf (which is what you are talking about- a failed star).
No. Don't know if there is even a star named Wormwood, whether in or out of the solar system.
It's from Revelations. It could be an asteroid headed our way. To ancient people, the suns of other solar systems and meteorites were both called stars, hence the term "falling star." So, by their terminology, our solar system has not one star but a whole lot more.
"Wormwood" is an ancient name for a poisonous plant that grows in the Near East. The name was transliterated into English at the time of the first English translations of the Bible, in the early 16th Century.
The reference to "A star named Wormwood" in the eighth chapter of the Apocalypse as Revealed to St. John the Divine (commonly called the Revelation or the Book of Revelations) is a mythic reference to the hope of the people of 1st Century Judea that the Roman occupiers would be poisoned by their own pollution of the rivers.
"A star fell on the rivers and poisoned one third of the people, and the name of the star was Wormwood." --Rev 8:11
The whole thing is completely mythical, being an ancient Greek play written in political cartoon language, that poetically described the fall of the Roman garrison in Judea that occurred in 79 AD.
As others have pointed out, if there were a star named that, it would not be in the solar system, as there is by definition only one star in the solar system, named "Sol." All other objects in the solar system are planetary or cometary in nature.
If you want to, you can go outside on a dark night and pick a star and name it "Wormwood." An it harm none, do what thou wilt!
Incidentally, it is not correct to say that the moon is the only satellite without a name. The moon's name is Luna.
Comet Kahoutek is another name for Wormwood. A great comet by description but a fizzle to see.
The only star in our solar system is the Sun.
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