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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 ...
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Fiction set on dwarf planets (2 C, 1 P) E. Fiction about Earth (15 C, 21 P) J. ... Fiction about the Sun (1 C, 18 P) T. Fiction about trans-Neptunian objects (2 C, 9 ...
This category is for the fictional use of real planets and dwarf planets. For completely fictional planets see: Category:Fictional planets. Subcategories.
The Sun received comparatively little specific attention in early science fiction; [2] prior to the late 1800s, when Mars became the most popular celestial object in fiction, the Sun was a distant second to the Moon. [3] A large proportion of the works that nevertheless did focus on the Sun portrayed it as having inhabitants.
Sad Planets describes Solaris as an "enigma", calling some of the book's most moving passages those that describe the planet itself, with no human presence. [2] Green Planets states that Solaris "resists both physical and epistemic human penetration", describing it as "an impervious mirror surface". Ironically, the planet itself appears to ...
Nevertheless, there are also many fictional planets that differ significantly from Earth. [1] [2] [3] Earth-like planets have become less common in fiction following the first detection of an exoplanet around a Sun-like star in 1995, [a] reflecting the scarcity of such worlds among the thousands discovered since.
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. ... that fictional planets of the Solar System include a planet inside the orbit of Mercury , Counter-Earth , and a destroyed planet between Mars and Jupiter (schematic diagram of orbits ...