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The Sun is a star, and all stars are suns. The word Sun is the name we give to our local star. Its first recorded use in English comes from the hand of King Alfred in the ninth century, but most Indo-European languages have similar-sounding words for it based around a root syllable su- or so-. We have been talking about the Sun for a long time.
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Marett-Crosby, M. (2013). How to See the Sun. In: Twenty-Five Astronomical Observations That Changed the World. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6800-4_2
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