* Astronomy

"Sex c" New Planet Discovered

What the CalTech release fails to mention is that the planets have names: 24 Sex b and 24 Sex c.
While each world in our solar system bears an official name based on mythology, the basic rule for naming an exoplanet is to use the star's name followed by a lower-case letter. The star itself is considered "a," so the first planet found gets labelled with a "b," and so on through the alphabet.
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