Sun
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| “ | The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a giant nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium, at temperatures of millions of degrees | ” |
| —Why Does the Sun Shine, a song by They Might Be Giants. | ||
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The Sun is that big, hot, yellow, incredibly bright round thing in the sky. You can't miss it, unless it's nighttime or you're the person who said that evolution couldn't be true because it violates the laws of thermodynamics and would require a huge outside source feeding energy into the planet to make it work.[1] Astronomers say that the sun is a star and the stars are all suns, astrologers would probably say something different. The main difference between the sun and other stars is that other stars are very much further away from the Earth, hence look smaller (which is why they were originally thought to be much different to the sun, modern technology has seen off that idea, however). Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to the Solar System - It is just over 4 light years away.
Modern educated people generally think that the Earth orbits the sun, based on the mythological concepts of "Observable Reality" and "Empirical Inquiry".
People infected with certain strains of religious fundamentalism, on the other hand, know that the Sun goes round the Earth based on the entirely factual history and science text, The Holy Bible
The Sun, as the most hallowed object in the sky, essential to all life, has the seventh (or first, depending on your calendric issues) day of the week named for her: Sunday.
According to some, physical "constants" are inconstant, but not in the slutty, Shakespearean kind of way. If this were true, the Sun would cause us big problems.
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