We live in a country that has no name. The United States of America is not a country name, it is just a descriptive term for a collection of colonial places that people called home. Other countries have names: Chili, Canada, Columbia, Cambodia and 205 other countries have names.
We live on a planet that has no name.
The earth is not a name, it is just a term that we refer to as the third planet from the sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are planet names. Earth is another term for dirt. To be fair, in many other languages other than English there is a name for our planet. http://nineplanets.org/days.html
The Moon is what we call our main satellite. This
is not a name; many planets have moons. Moon is a term for natural satellites that orbit planets. Mars has two of them, and both have good proper names: Phobos and Deimos. Jupiter has 67 known moons, all have names, the biggest and first to be seen from earth all have great names: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Saturn has 62 moons with confirmed orbits, 53 of which have names. Why doesn’t our moon have a proper
name?
All of these planets orbit around a star that does not have a name. The sun is not a name, it is just a term we use to describe that very bright object that is in the sky during the day. Several hundred of the brightest stars have traditional names: Sirius, Arcturus, Vega, Alpha Centauri, Polaris for example. But our most important star – no name.
Our no name planet
and our no name moon and the other named planets and moons that revolve around our no name star in a system are again given no name other than the solar system. Our solar system is not unique. Astronomers have detected over 3500 planets orbiting around other stars in what are certainly solar systems. Guess what, they are already being given names. What about our solar system? No name for it.
But finally, we come to
our galaxy. It has a real name: The Milky Way. It is BIG. Estimates say that it contains 200–400 billion stars and 100 billion planets. We are not alone; recent estimates say that there are 2 trillion galaxies in the universe.
By the way, our universe does not have a name either.
So if a visitor from another world were to ask you where your lived, what would you say?