quotations about the sun
The sun at the center of our Solar System is one of the big reasons why we're here today, but it can also be a bit of a nuisance from time to time. Coronal mass ejections -- when the sun spews a whole bunch of plasma and energy into space -- can seriously mess up human communication infrastructure if they happen to graze Earth. For years, researchers have attempted to forecast and predict CMEs in the hopes that warnings could help prevent damage to electronics and the power grid, and when doing so, they've modeled the huge solar blasts as bubbles moving through space. As it turns out, a CME is more like a sneeze.
MIKE WEHNER
"Scientist says the sun is sneezing on Earth", BGR, June 23, 2017
Standing in the Alpha Beta parking lot
Watching the sun set
I'll never forget
Watching all the reds and oranges slip away
Letting go of yet another dirty day
CAKE
"Alpha Beta Parking Lot"
The sun shines upon good and bad alike.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
"A Picture from the Ramparts"
Limitless undying love which
Shines around me like a million suns,
It calls me on and on across the universe
THE BEATLES
"Across the Universe", Let It Be
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Well we all shine on
Ev'ryone come on
JOHN LENNON
"Instant Karma"
And see--the Sun himself!--on wings
Of glory up the East he springs.
Angel of Light! who from the time
Those heavens began their march sublime,
Hath first of all the starry choir
Trod in his Maker's steps of fire!
THOMAS MOORE
Lalla Rookh
Turn your face towards the sun
Let the shadows fall behind you
Don't look back, just carry on
And the shadows will never find you
RIHANNA
"Towards the Sun"
The sun sheddeth color and grace over nature, and all that is beautiful laughs with renewed youth.
SOLOMON GESSNER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Right now, the Sun is stirring up violent eruptions capable of wiping out the technology we are so dependent on, and new research has found that these blasts are even harder to predict than scientists first thought.
GEMMA CONROY
"The Sun Is 'Sneezing' Solar Storms Towards Earth", Science Alert, July 1, 2017