NASA to ban “Eskimo Nebula” and other “colonial, racist” names
NASA announces it’s changing “insensitive, actively harmful” nicknames for cosmic objects. “Eskimo Nebula” 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 […]
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