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  2. Extrasolar planets in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Planets themselves being portrayed as alive, while relatively rare (especially compared to stars receiving the same treatment), is a recurring theme. [1] [38] Sentient planets appear in Ray Bradbury's 1951 short story "Here There Be Tygers", Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel Solaris, and Terry Pratchett's 1976 novel The Dark Side of the Sun.

  3. Fictional planets of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Additional planets in the outer reaches of the Solar System, such as a ninth planet beyond Neptune or especially a tenth beyond Pluto (between the 1930 discovery of Pluto and its reclassification from planet to dwarf planet in 2006), appear regularly. Many different names for this hypothetical outermost planet have been used, the most common ...

  4. Procedural generation - Wikipedia

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    No Man's Sky, by using procedural generation, is the largest video game in history, featuring a universe of 18 quintillion planets across entire galaxies, which can be explored in flight or on foot. The planets all have their own uniquely diverse terrain, weather, flora, and fauna, as well as a number of space-faring alien species.

  5. List of fictional galactic communities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional galactic communities who are space-faring, in contact with one or more space-faring civilizations or are part of a larger government, coalition, republic, organization or alliance of two or more separate space-faring civilizations.

  6. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri - Wikipedia

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    Another concern was that Planet matched the story, which resulted in the fungus being connected across continents, as it is supposed to be a gigantic neural network. [54] Terraforming is a natural outgrowth of colonizing an alien world. [55] The first playable prototype was just a map generator that tested climate changes during the game. [47]

  7. This is why aliens on 'super-Earth' planets may not be able ...

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    New research suggests that if there are aliens out there living on “Super-Earth’ planets, they may be stuck there. The findings submitted to the International Journal of Astrobiology propose ...

  8. Scientists find Earth-like planet that could be home to alien ...

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    The distance separating the planet and its star is just 7% of the distance between Earth and the Sun, and the planet receives 1.6 times more energy from its star than Earth does from the Sun.

  9. Category:Fictional planets - Wikipedia

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