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* There was an eccentric/nutcase interviewed on [[The BBC]] in the 1970s who was convinced the Sun was a cold body and that its perceived heat was the result of an electrical interaction with the Earth. Or something.
* A pre-[[Socrates|Socratic]] philosopher named [[Awesome McCoolname|Anaxagoras]] believed that the Sun was not a god, but a large ball of incandescent metal about the size of the Peloponnese. In Athens, this amounted to blasphemy, and he had to leave town in a hurry.
* Planets have been found orbiting pulsars. You're not going to find [http://3dastronomer.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/extreme_planet.jpg a weirder sun to orbit than that]{{Dead link}}.
** Especially weird when you consider the first discovered star system with extrasolar planets ''[[wikipedia:PSR 1257+12|was a pulsar system]]''. They found it in 1992. The first confirmed exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, [[wikipedia:51 Pegasi b|51 Pegasi b]], was only discovered three years later, in 1995. Though in all honesty, the astronomers who discovered the pulsar system couldn't make a 100% sure statement about it having planets until 2007, when it was finally confirmed it had three exoplanets of its own, formed under unusual circumstances.
** Of course considering the sheer amount of radiation the pulsars emit, the chances of anyone watching them are small.
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