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  2. Sun in fiction - Wikipedia

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    [6] [72] Willy Ley's 1937 short story "At the Perihelion" involves a close approach to the Sun as part of an escape from Mars, [4] [5] [73] and Charles L. Harness's 1949 novel The Paradox Men (a.k.a. Flight into Yesterday) is a space opera that climaxes with a swordfight atop a space station on the surface of the Sun. [4] [5] [74] [75] In Ray ...

  3. A Farewell to Arms (Futurama) - Wikipedia

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    The solar flare bypasses Earth and strikes Mars, igniting the gases in the planet's crust, which propel Mars towards Earth. As Mars closes within hundreds of feet of Earth's surface, the escapees safely jump off of Mars and back onto their home planet. However, Leela is unable to jump due to her broken leg.

  4. Astronomical filter - Wikipedia

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    Solar filters are used to safely observe and photograph the Sun, which despite being white, may appear as a yellow-orange disk. A telescope with these filters attached can directly and properly view details of solar features, especially sunspots and granulation on the surface , [ 4 ] as well as solar eclipses and transits of the inferior ...

  5. TV Tropes - Wikipedia

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    TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. [7] Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography ...

  6. Away (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Away follows the first crewed expedition to Mars, the Mars Joint Initiative.It features an international crew: a Chinese chemist, a world-leading British botanist with no previous experience in space, a Russian cosmonaut with the most experience in space, an Indian medical officer who is second in command, and American commander Emma Green.

  7. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction - Wikipedia

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    Super-hurricanes and tornadoes are predicted. Buildings will be blown away. A race is on to build thousands of spaceships for the sole purpose of transferring evacuees on a one-way trip to Mars. When the Sun begins to go nova, everything is on schedule, but most of the spaceships turn out to be defective, and fail en route to Mars.

  8. Target Luna - Wikipedia

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    Yet Brown creates a theory that if they can use the gravity pull of the Sun to get home. Some time after setting off, the crew all slowly succumb to gamma rays from the Sun one-by-one. By a miracle, there is a total eclipse and Mercury shuts of the rays from the Sun but they quickly find themselves being pulled into Mercury's gravity pull.

  9. Mars (American TV series) - Wikipedia

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    A companion book to the series, Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet (October 2016), details the science behind the show. [1] A prequel episode, called Before Mars, was produced and released conjointly with the series. It tells the fictional story of a moment in the life of one of the astronauts and the decisions she made to get involved in science.