https://g1.globo.com/ciencia-e-saude/noticia/2020/08/05/nasa-anuncia-que-vai-revisar-nomes-de-planetas-estrelas-e-galaxias-que-podem-ser-preconceituosos.ghtml

NASA will revise the name of celestial bodies that may be considered biggoted.

What is your take on it?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-reexamine-nicknames-for-cosmic-objects

As an initial step, NASA will no longer refer to planetary nebula NGC 2392, the glowing remains of a Sun-like star that is blowing off its outer layers at the end of its life, as the “Eskimo Nebula.” “Eskimo” is widely viewed as a colonial term with a racist history, imposed on the indigenous people of Arctic regions. Most official documents have moved away from its use. NASA will also no longer use the term “Siamese Twins Galaxy” to refer to NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Moving forward, NASA will use only the official, International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are inappropriate. 

I like mine.

We should also rename the months since those Roman emperors were pretty nasty as well.

Augustus, or Octavius as he was then known, was already poised to be second-in-command in Caesar’s New Order. Styling himself as the Young Caesar, he made a brazen bid to reclaim rank and stature by ruthlessly rekindling the flames of civil war. This shattered the compromise peace made between Mark Antony, Caesar’s foremost lieutenant, and Caesar’s leading assassins, Brutus and Cassius.

His claims he took control by universal consent and subsequently restored the traditional republican polity after his military victory over Antony and Cleopatra 30 BCE are equally mendacious.

Augustus repeatedly conducted murderous as well as bloodless purges of the aristocracy from November 43 through to 29 BCE, repressing all political opposition. Late in 43, he and his then allies Mark Antony and Lepidus ruthlessly proscribed over 300 senators and 2,000 equestrians (the lower aristocracy and business elite). Many were hunted down and butchered in plain view, including the great orator and republican Marcus Cicero.

In 28 BCE, after his final civil war victories and shortly before his much vaunted “restoration” of the Republic, he removed another 40% of the Senate, reducing their numbers to 600.

In 27 BCE, when he finally laid down his official emergency powers – powers he had alleged were needed to confront real or imaginary crises he and his henchmen had engineered – a compliant Senate promptly reinvested him with a vast, 10-year military command. This command was the cornerstone of his autocracy, and was suitably renewed every 10 years, invariably justified on the grounds of ongoing military exigencies in the provinces.

One major consequence of this charade was unprecedented imperialist expansion and warfare. At enormous human and material cost, Augustus would more than double the size of the Empire and add more territory to Rome’s provincial dominion than any Roman before or after him – so much for his much-vaunted peace, the Pax Augusta.

Good. Those eskimos were really mad about it. They just couldnt keep their cool.

Seems like the Mongolian invasion on Japan in Ghost of Tsushima after invading the country ask you to yield to him to bring peace.

I see what you did here. Cool.

Might as well rename the Milky Way. Why were at it, why not rename Climax, Sask and Intercourse, PA?

Ugh no i do not support it,there is a clear difference between racism and what can be considered as.
This gives vile people more fuel to go witchhunting fantasies.

Pointlesness of this virtual signaling aside, can the NASA do that? Can they just change the names of astral bodies? Are they the sole arbitrator of that? Because I have a hard time believing anyone outside of the USA will go along with this.

Yeah indeed you make a very good point there,not only NASA has put work in this research.