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No, [[They Might Be Giants|the Sun is not a mass of incandescent gas]] |
No, [[They Might Be Giants|the Sun is not a mass of incandescent gas]] <ref>(nor is it a [[Science Marches On|miasma of incandescent plasma)]]</ref>. It is a solid, [[Lethal Lava Land|magmatic]], and [[Convection, Schmonvection|less-hot-than-they-say-it-is]] ball that has Earth gravity, despite being more than three hundred thousand times more massive than Earth. Or possibly a chariot wheel, a very large flashlight, or a two-dimensional painting on the cosmic backdrop that is the sky. Forget everything you know about Mr. Sun<ref>Let's not forget that in several languages it's Mrs. Sun, thank you very much. Let's hope he/she/it isn't offended.</ref>, because in Fiction Land, it's all wrong. |
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Unlike [[Weird Moon]], the occurrence of these is rarer, except in animations where they're more common. |
Unlike [[Weird Moon]], the occurrence of these is rarer, except in animations where they're more common. |
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[[Category:Artistic License Astronomy]] |
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[[Category:Weird Sun]] |
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