Glossary

Optical Aberration

updated: 2022-06-30


The International Astronomical Union (IAU) discourages the use of these symbols in modern journal articles, and their style manual proposes one- and two-letter abbreviations for the names of the planets for cases where planetary symbols might be used, such as in the headings of tables.The modern planets with their traditional symbols and IAU abbreviations are:

planet

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

symbol (text)

☿

♀

🜨

♂

♃

♄

⛢

♆

symbol (image)

Mercury symbol (fixed width).svg

Venus symbol (fixed width).svg

Earth symbol (fixed width).svg

Mars symbol (fixed width).svg

Jupiter symbol (fixed width).svg

Saturn symbol (fixed width).svg

Uranus platinum symbol (fixed width).svg

Neptune symbol (fixed width).svg

initial (IAU)

Me[2]

V

E

Ma

J

S

U

N


Reference: Planet symbols - Wikipedia for more details.

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