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The Sun received comparatively little specific attention in early science fiction; [2] prior to the late 1800s, when Mars became the most popular celestial object in fiction, the Sun was a distant second to the Moon. [3] A large proportion of the works that nevertheless did focus on the Sun portrayed it as having inhabitants.
Fiction about the Sun, the star at the center of the Solar System. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. F. Sun in film (1 C, 9 P)
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.
A group of children and their guardian, captives of a sun-worshipping African tribe, escape by threatening to kill the Sun, having prior knowledge of an imminent solar eclipse. Voyage: A Novel of 1896 by Sterling Hayden (1976). Depicts a solar eclipse of the titular year, viewed from the South Pacific. Black Robe by Brian Moore (1985).
The lieutenant continues alone, steadily growing more desperate, until he sees a Sun Dome. He stumbles toward it, nagged by urges to begin drinking the rain, and opens the door to a scene of luxury: freshly prepared sandwiches and hot chocolate, a change of uniform, and a phonograph in mid-song.
A celebrated French physicist named Étienne Klein tweeted out an image on July 31 claiming it showed Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the sun.
The word is often used in reference to the Sun, Earth, and either the Moon or a planet, where the latter is in conjunction or opposition. Solar and lunar eclipses occur at times of syzygy, as do transits and occultations. The term is often applied when the Sun and Moon are in conjunction or in opposition . [4]
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