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Vulcan in a lithographic map from 1846 [1] Vulcan / ˈ v ʌ l k ən / [2] was a proposed planet that some pre-20th century astronomers thought existed in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. Speculation about, and even purported observations of, intermercurial bodies or planets date back to the beginning of the 17th century.
The fictional Vulcan homeworld, also named Vulcan, was visited several times in the Star Trek series and feature films. The inhabitants are known as "Vulcans" or "Vulcanians". First seen in the TOS episode "Amok Time", Vulcan, a Class M planet, is an arid world with a thinner atmosphere than Earth. Upon beaming down, McCoy states "'Hot as Vulcan.'
Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
Lewis Swift discovered 13 comets but zero planets.
Scientists Katherine Laliotis and Jennifer Burt didn't set out to anger Trekkies with their new study of exoplanets in other solar systems. It just so happens the data pointed them and the rest of ...
Sargon's people explore the galaxy and colonize various planets, possibly including Vulcan. [6] c. 600,000 years ago The Tkon Empire, an interstellar state consisting of dozens of star systems in the Alpha Quadrant, becomes extinct. c. 200,000 years ago The Iconian civilization is destroyed. c. 8,000 BCE
In the 2009 Abrams reboot film, titled Star Trek, the planet Romulus is destroyed by a supernova in the year 2387. A Romulan mining ship, the Narada, survives and travels back in time to the 23rd century; its commander, Nero , is committed to destroying the planet Vulcan to punish Spock for failing to save Romulus
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