NASA GETS WOKE

Late last week, NASA announced that it would begin reviewing and, where necessary, changing the names of astronomical bodies that were deemed racially insensitive. The announcement came with the revelation that the space agency had already identified two objects that could be immediately renamed.

Going forward, the remains of a dying sun-like star and its mushroom of fleeing comets and gasses once known as the “Eskimo Nebula” will now be referred to as “NGC 2392.” The term Eskimo was a name forced on indigenous people in the Arctic region by colonial explorers and settlers; it was given to the planetary nebula for the dying star’s passing resemblance to a face within a fuzzy parka.
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NASA, deeming such names as "Eskimo Nebula" and "Siamese Twins Galaxy" as insensitive, is now re-examining its use of unofficial terms for cosmic objects. https://bit.ly/33KDNi3