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One of the driving questions that the James Webb Space Telescope is being used to answer is whether planets orbiting stars much smaller than the sun have atmospheres.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then in June, the rain stopped and "the sun just stole our yield".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

He delivers couplets like “I need somebody sent down from the sun / That talks to me how you used to” as if he believes that if he stops singing he might die.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

So they do whatever they can to dodge the sun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

At last, when the sun was low in the sky, a prisoner crew arrived with a great vat of some thick steamy substance that we gobbled ravenously.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The holes in the colander will project a grid of crescent suns onto the ground.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

In Nepal's eastern plains, rival political flags depicting blue bells and red suns flutter over tea farms and brick homes -- symbols of a local election campaign shaping landmark nationwide polls.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

Current cutting-edge simulations can represent systems with the equivalent mass of about one billion suns, far below the more than 100 billion stars that make up the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2025

Seems bright — a black hole flared with the light of 10 trillion suns.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

But there is a continuous gradation from triple systems through loose clusters of a few dozen stars to the great globular clusters, resplendent with a million suns.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A barred owl hooted and shook its feathers in a sycamore above the creek, and red-bellied cooters sunned themselves on half-submerged logs.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

She settled on a grassy knoll, sunned herself and took a nap.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Perched on a pylon, a pelican sunned its wings.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

From the rear—particularly where his vertebrae were visible—he might almost have passed for one of those needy metropolitan children who are sent out every summer to endowed camps to be fattened and sunned.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

He can often be seen sunning himself on the dock, with other sea lions dozing or barking away nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

On an unseasonably warm afternoon, families flocked to the waterfront, sunning themselves before an azure-blue Mediterranean.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

But pedestrians were again venturing outdoors: a father walking with his daughter on a scooter, children playing with a ball, or locals sunning themselves in a park.

From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026

It featured a shimmering statue of himself, his close ally Elon Musk enjoying snacks on the beach, and he and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sunning themselves, shirtless.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

From there, we spot mermaids and merrows sunning themselves near craggy caves, their scales reflecting the amber glow of the late-afternoon sun.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black