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Your comment makes me unreasonably angry. How should the average person know that? I wouldn't have, and I do consider myself educated. Imo this is not a basic thing to know at all, science is really big, you can't reasonably expect everyone to know about everything. And to be honest, there are so many more things more important to know in science than analysing a flying object in the sky which looks a lot like in pictures of a comet.
Comment by pab_guy at 04/07/2024 at 12:29 UTC
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Planets, moons, comets, stars, meteors - known to the ancients, these are just a handful of concepts that explain most of what we can see with the naked eye in the night sky. Most people should be taught these concepts in grade school. Less visible things like asteroids and galaxies are still explainable to a grade school child in about 5 minutes. I'm very curious how you weren't taught about comets.
Quasars and neutron stars and black holes, on the other hand, are things I can understand a lot of people not understanding.